“…(7) (Singh, 2001(Singh, , 2002. The diffusive wave in the historic formulations (Cunge, 1969;Akan and Yen, 1981) or in more recent works (Rutschmann and Hager, 1996;Wang et al, 2006Wang et al, , 2014Swain and Sahoo, 2015) can thus be considered a higher-order approximation than the kinematic wave approximation (Katopodes, 1982;Zoppou and O'Neill, 1982;Daluz Vieira, 1983;Ferrick, 1985;Ponce, 1990). Both have been largely studied (since Wooding, 1965a, b;Singh, 1975;Lane and Woolhiser, 1977;Ponce, 1991) until more recently (Szymkiewicz and Gasiorowski, 2012;Yu and Duan, 2014) and have proven very useful for canal control algorithms or flood routing procedures, with lateral inflow , in rectangular channels (Keskin and Agiralioglu, 1997), for real-time forecast (Todini and Bossi, 1986), in lowland catchments , for overland flows (Pearson, 1989;Chua et al, 2008;Wong, 2010, 2011), on urban catchments (Gironás et al, 2009;Elga et al, 2015), for small catchments Chahinian et al, 2005;Charlier, 2007), for mountainous catchments , for medium-size catchments (Emmanuel et al, 2015) or tropical catchments , at the largest scale of the Amazon basin Paiva et al, 2013), for anthropogenic hillslopes (Hallema and Moussa, 2013), to address backwater effects , stormwater runoff on impervious surfaces (Singh, 1975;Pearson, 1989;Blandford and Meadows, 1990;, stream-aquifer interactions (Perkins and Koussis, 1996), or volume and mass conservatio...…”