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  • Question
  • Slow sand filter is used if maximum turbidity of raw water is less than


  • Options
  • A. 10 gm/litre
  • B. 20 gm/litre
  • C. 30 gm/litre
  • D. 40 gm/litre
  • E. 50 gm/litre.

  • Correct Answer
  • 50 gm/litre. 


  • Water Supply Engineering problems


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    • 1. Standard unit of turbidity of water is in one litre of distilled water, one milligram of finely divided

    • Options
    • A. silica
    • B. mud
    • C. clay
    • D. organic matter.
    • Discuss
    • 2. Normal values of overflow rate for plain sedimentation tanks in litres/hr/m2, generally range between

    • Options
    • A. 100 to 250
    • B. 250 to 500
    • C. 500 to 750
    • D. 750 to 1000
    • Discuss
    • 3. The coefficient of permeability of soils, is generally expressed in

    • Options
    • A. cm/sec
    • B. cm/minute
    • C. cm2/sec
    • D. cm2/minute.
    • Discuss
    • 4. 'Shrouding' is essentially provided in

    • Options
    • A. strainer type wells
    • B. cavity type wells
    • C. slotted type well
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 5. Demand for public uses in a city, does not include water required for

    • Options
    • A. watering of public parks
    • B. watering of public gardens
    • C. sprickling on roads
    • D. drinking purposes.
    • Discuss
    • 6. The temporary hardness of water can be removed by

    • Options
    • A. boiling
    • B. adding lime
    • C. adding alum
    • D. filtration
    • E. sedimentation.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Water losses in water supply, is assumed as

    • Options
    • A. 5%
    • B. 7.5%
    • C. 10%
    • D. 22.5%
    • E. 15%.
    • Discuss
    • 8. A centrifugal pump is required to be primed before starting if it is located

    • Options
    • A. at higher level than water level of reservoir
    • B. at lower level than water level of reservoir
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. neither (a) nor (b).
    • Discuss
    • 9. Rapid gravity filters

    • Options
    • A. were developed by G.W. Fullar
    • B. make use of coarser sand with effective size as 0.5 mm
    • C. yield as high as 30 times the yield of slow sand filters
    • D. are fed with coagulation treated water
    • E. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Property of earth to allow water to pass through it, is known as

    • Options
    • A. perviousness
    • B. porosity
    • C. permeability
    • D. transmissibility.
    • Discuss


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