Recent questions and answers in Water Resources Engineering

The Culturable Command Area (CCA) for a canal is $10000$ hectares. The base period for a crop in the CCA is $140$ days. Watering depth for the crop is $40$ cm. The outlet...

Following statements are made with respect to the mass curve of rainfall:Slope at a point on the curve can be positive.Slope at a point on the curve can be zero.Which one...

Types of flood routing and methods are given in the table below.\[\begin{array}{|l|l|}\hline\begin{array}{l}\text{Column 1}\\\text{Type of Flood Routing}\end{array}&\begi...

Width (in m) of a rectangular channel required to carry a discharge of $96 \mathrm{~m}^{3} / \mathrm{s}$ at a critical depth of $9.8 \text{ m}$ is $\_\_\_\_$ (rounded off...

The cross section of a $0.5$ m wide vertical gate holding water and oil is shown in the figure. The unit weights of water and oil are $10 ~\mathrm{kN} / \mathrm{m}^{3}$ a...

A centrifugal pump is delivering water from an underground tank to an overhead reservoir against a static head of $35$ m through a $2$ km long, $250$ mm diameter pipe. Th...

The flow depth for a discharge of $10 \mathrm{~m}^{3} / \mathrm{s}$ in a wide rectangular channel is $2.0 \text{ m}$. Assume that the flow is uniform.If the discharge is ...

Two reservoirs having different water levels are connected by two long parallel pipelines of same length and same material but having diameters of $600$ mm and $400$ mm. ...

An irrigation canal is to be designed to deliver $10$ cumec to meet the peak demand of $7500$ hectare of cropped area. The estimated canal losses are $50 \%$ of the head ...

Gradually Varied Flow (GVF) profiles in open channels given in Column $1$ are to be matched with the water surface slopes in Column $2$ in the table below.\[\begin{array}...

For a hydraulic jump formed in a rectangular horizontal channel, the sequent depth ratio is $2$. The Froude number of supercritical stream is$\sqrt{3}$$\sqrt{5}$$\sqrt{6}...

In a laminar flow of a Newtonian fluid through a circular pipe of radius $5 \text{ cm}$, the maximum velocity is found to be $2 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}$. The velocity (i...

A fully-penetrating well of $20$ cm diameter is provided in an unconfined aquifer. The height of the ground water table is $30$ m from the bottom of the aquifer. After a ...

A wide unlined channel carries sediment-free water. The depth of water is $1$ m. The specific weight of water is $10 \mathrm{~kN} / \mathrm{m}^{3}$. To prevent scouring, ...

A bridge with an expected life of $50$ years is designed for a flood of $10000 \mathrm{~m}^{3} / \mathrm{s}$ corresponding to the return period of $100$ years. The risk a...

The intensity-duration relationship for a rainfall on a rectangular plot $\text{ABCD}$ of area $7$ \text{ha} ($1 \mathrm{~ha}=10^{4} \mathrm{~m}^{2}$) can be modelled by ...