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Civil Engineering Practice Test: Water Supply Engineering
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Water Supply Engineering is a branch of engineering concerned with the development of sources of supply, transmission, distribution, and treatment of water.

The term is commonly used for municipal (city) water works, but applies also to water systems for industry, irrigation, wastewater reuse, and other purposes.

Civil Engineering Practice Test: Water Supply Engineering
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1. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. The underground sources of water, is from
2. Normal values of overflow rate for plain sedimentation tank, is
3. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
4. Critical time for developing a water hammer, is the time required for
5. Efficiency of removing bacterias from raw water by a slow sand filter, is
6. If P is population of a city in thousands and Q is fire demand in litres per minute, for proper estimate of water, the Empirical formula Q = 1135 [(P/5) + 10] is suggested by
7. By adding 1 ml of Orthotolidine solution to 100 ml chlorinated water taken after contact period, the residual chlorine makes the colour of solution
8. Q is the discharge from an unconfined tube well with depression head s through its pipe of radius rw. If the radius of influence is R, the length of the required strainer, is
9. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:
10. The period of cleaning of a slow sand filter, is usually
11. Bacterias which can survive with or without free oxygen, are known
12. Grade aqueducts are not allowed to run
13. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
14. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
15. A water channel supported above the ground over trestles, is generally called
16. The maximum depth of sedimentation tanks is limited to
17. Manholes along the mains from the source to a city are provided at 500 m intervals in
18. Normal values of overflow rate for sedimentation tanks using coagulants in litres/hr/m2, generally range between
19. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
20. If p is total internal pressure, d is diameter of pressure conduit and t is thickness of conduit, the Hoop's stress is
21. The flow of water gets retarded, in
22. According to Buston's formula, fire demand in litres per minute for a population of P thousands, is
23. The maximum permissible colour for domestic supplies based on cobalt scale, is
24. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
25. If pH value of water is