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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. A strainer type well sunk through three previous layers intervened by three impervious aquicludes, draws water from
2. P.V.C. pipes can withstand pressure bead of water upto
3. The dilution ratio at which the odour is hardly detectable is generally called threshold odour number and for public supplies it should not exceed
4. To pump water from a water reservoir 3 m deep and maximum water level at 135 m, a pump is installed to lift water up to R.L. 175 m at a constant rate of 36,00,000 litres per hour. If the length of the pipe is 1506 m and f = 0.01, ignoring other minor losses and assuming the economical diameter from Lea's formula D = 1.2 Q, the water horse power of the pump is
5. Most commonly used pump for lifting water in water supply mains, is
6. Water having pH value as 6, is
7. Runoff is the quantity of water which flows
8. The process of passing water through beds of granular materials, is called
9. Air valves are generally provided in pressure pipes of water supply
10. In a rapid gravity filter
11. The maximum hourly consumption, is generally taken as
12. The yield of a rapid gravity filter as compared to that of slow sand filter, is
13. Pressure relief valves are provided in water mains
14. While designing a water supply of an industrial township, industrial and commercial water demand of total supply, is assumed
15. Pick up the correct statement from the following:
16. In an artesian aquifer, the draw downs in two observation wells at distances 100 m, and 200 m were found same after one hour and x hours respectively. The value of x, is
17. A slow sand filter is cleaned if its filter head is higher than
18. Sunlight
19. The fire demand for a city of 50,000 populations, according to Godrich formula, is
20. Rapid gravity filter can only remove turbidity of water upto
21. The main draw-back of centrifugal pump, is
22. De-chlorination is followed by
23. Acidity in water is caused due to
24. The best quality of filter material is obtained from quartzite if it does not loose weight when placed in hydrochloric acid for 24 hours, more than
25. The storage capacity of a reservoir may be divided into three zones. The lowest zone is