Water Resources Engineering Questions

• Pick up the correct statement from the following :
• The coefficients of permeability of soils of an unconfined aquifer and another confined aquifer were determined by pumping water from the wells and observing the effect of water table in two test wells at equal distances was found to be equal. The total height of confined aquifer H is given by
• Precipitation caused due to striking of air masses with a topographical feature, is called
• If h is the loss due to friction in a pipe. Total losses in strainer and bends may be taken as
• The area enclosed by the adjacent isohyets of a catchment basin are shown under : The average depth of annual precipitation in the catchment basin will be
• Ryve's formula for flood estimate in cumecs, is
• For efficient working of a control meter, its throat length is approximately kept
• Relative humidity is the ratio of actual vapour pressure to the saturation vapour pressure
• The rate of evaporation from reservoirs may be determined by
• Pick up the correct statement from the following :
• If ω is unit weight of water, Q the discharge in cumecs, H the total head lift and η, the efficiency of the pump, the H.P. of the motor is
• A soil strata may consist of
• Isopiastic lines are the contours
• Run off is measured in
• Dicken's formula for high flood estimate, is useful only for the catchments in
• The equation P - Q = Te φindex for determining the infiltration capacity, was suggested by
• If the dew point is greater than 0°C
• The rational formula for calculating the discharge, is (where A is the area of basin and Po is one hour rainfall)
• The recurrence interval (R.I.) of 20 cm rain storm at a place is 5 years.
• Humidity refers to