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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. Alkalinity in water may be caused due to
2. The depth of the water table at a place is 45 m below the general ground level. To lift water from a deep tube well in such a locality, the type of pump to be installed is
3. While determining the yield of open wells by the pumping test
4. Water to the consumers may be supplied from
5. B.O.D. of treated water should be
6. The water level in an open well was depressed by pumping 2.5 m and recuperated 2.87 m in 3 hours and 50 minutes. The yield of the well per minute is
7. If Q is discharge is cubic metres per sec and D is the economical diameter of the pipe. According to Lea"
8. Estimates of a water supply project depends upon the rate of water supply per capita consumption and probable population estimated at the end of the design period of
9. The rate of silting in a reservoir
10. Velocity of flow of water in plain sedimentation water tank, is normally kept
11. Most important method for calculating discharge for planning a water supply project, is
12. Corrosion of well pipes may not be reduced by
13. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
14. S1 and S2 are the draw downs in an observation well at times t1 and t2 after pumping. For discharge Q and coefficient of transmissibility T, the relationship, is
15. 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,
16. Aeration of water is done to remove
17. Steel pipe are
18. Water supply includes
19. The bed slope in slow sand filters, is generally kept
20. A centrifugal pump is required to be primed before starting if it is located
21. If p is total internal pressure, d is diameter of pressure conduit and t is thickness of conduit, the Hoop's stress is
22. Continuous flow of water can be expected from
23. The main draw-back of centrifugal pump, is
24. Pipes are laid parallel
25. An earth formation which, although porous and capable of absorbing water does not provide an appreciable supply to wells, is known as