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1 (a)
Discuss various causes of drought.
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1 (b)
Discuss water resources planning and its objectives.
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2 (a)
Explain the methods of estimating flood.
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2 (b)
Describe the flood routing with neat sketch.
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Differentiate between following
2 (c) 1
Flood proofing and Flood forecasting
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2 (c) 2
Flood walls and Flood ways.
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3 (a)
Describe the process of the hydrological cycle with a neat sketch
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3 (b)
In a watershed, the average annual precipitation for four sub-basins was recorded as follows: 100.84,112.27,84.84 & 73.406 cm. the areas of the sub-basins were : 93264.3, 71243.5, 108808.2 & 168393.8 ha., calculate the average precipitation of the total watershed using the Thiessen method.
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3 (c)
Discuss the various methods used to measure rate of evaporation from a reservoir.
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3 (d)
The excess rainfall (direct runoff ) produced from a 10.0 cm rainfall of a storm is 6.0
cm. the rainfall at each hour of the storm recorded by a rain gauge is as under.
Calculate the infiltration index of the storm.
| Time (h) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Incremental rainfall (cm) | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.4 |
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4 (a)
What is drainage basin? Discuss various characteristics of drainage basin.
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4 (b)
The ordinates of a 4 h UH of a basin of area 300 km2 measured at 1 h intervals are
6,36,66,91,106,93,79,68,58,49,41,34,27,23,17,13,9,6,3 and 1.5 m3 /s respectively.
Obtain the ordinates of a 3 h UH for the basin using the S-curve technique.
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4 (c)
Discuss types of aquifers with neat sketches.
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4 (d)
The direct runoff hydrograph resulting from a 5.0 cm effective rainfall of 6 h duration is given below. Determine the area of the catchment and the ordinates of the 6 h Unit Hydrograph.
| Time (h) | 0 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 30 | 36 | 42 | 48 | 54 | 60 | 66 | 72 |
| Direct runoff (m3/s) | 0 | 25 | 175 | 320 | 360 | 310 | 230 | 165 | 105 | 60 | 30 | 10 | 0 |
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5 (a)
Describe briefly the various types of reservoirs and also differentiate between single and multi-purpose reservoirs.
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5 (b)
Discuss various classifications of hydropower plants.
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5 (c)
Explain the terms : density current, Normal pool level, Dead storage, reservoir yield.
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5 (d)
Write short notes on : Surge tank, Penstocks
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