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Water Supply Engineering problems


  • 1. Rapid gravity filters

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  • 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
  • 2. Property of earth to allow water to pass through it, is known as

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  • A. perviousness
  • B. porosity
  • C. permeability
  • D. transmissibility.
  • Discuss
  • 3. The chloride content of treated water for public supplies should not exceed

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  • A. 100 ppm
  • B. 150 ppm
  • C. 200 ppm
  • D. 250 ppm
  • E. 300 ppm.
  • Discuss
  • 4. The external load per unit length of

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  • A. a pipe laid on, or projecting above the undisturbed ground and covered with fills, is proportional to the square of the external diameter of the pipe
  • B. a flexible pipe burried in narrow trenches and thoroughly compacted side fills, is proportional to the product of the width of the trench and diameter of the pipe
  • C. a rigid pipe burried in a narrow trenches and thoroughly compacted side fills, is proportional to the square of the width of the trench
  • D. all the above.
  • Discuss
  • 5. Disinfection of drinking water is done to remove

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  • A. turbidity
  • B. odour
  • C. colour
  • D. bacterias
  • E. all the above.
  • Discuss
  • 6. The formula Civil Engineering Water Supply Engineering: The formula for the he for the head loss in conduits is generally known as

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  • A. Hazen-William's formula
  • B. Manning's formula
  • C. Darcy-Weisbach formula
  • D. Nikuradse formula.
  • Discuss
  • 7. In a reservoir the average volume of sediment deposition is 0.15 million cubic per year. If the dead storage and total capacity of the reservoir are 8 million cubic metres and 36 million cubic metres respectively,

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  • A. the reservoir will theoretically be silted in 240 years
  • B. the reservoir will start reducing after 60 years
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. neither (a) nor (b).
  • Discuss
  • 8. Derivation of Thiem's formula
    Civil Engineering Water Supply Engineering: Derivation of Thiem's formula is based on the assumption

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  • A. the aquifer is homogeneous, isotropic and of infinite depth and area
  • B. the well is sunk through the full depth of the aquifer
  • C. the flow lines are radial and horizontal, and the flow is laminar
  • D. for hydraulic gradient in Darcy's equation, tangent value is used for sine value
  • E. all the above.
  • Discuss
  • 9. Water is supplied from the source to the treatment plant under gravity in

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  • A. Calcutta
  • B. Delhi
  • C. Madras
  • D. Bombay.
  • Discuss
  • 10. The most ideal disinfectant used for drinking water throughout the world, is

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  • A. alum
  • B. lime
  • C. chlorine
  • D. nitrogen
  • E. ammonia.
  • Discuss

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