Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Water Resources and Irrigation

Engineering
WATER RESOURCES and WATER RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
1. Engineering economy in water resources planning - Answer (click here)
2. Water Resources Development - Answer (click here)
3. Water Resources Project Planning - Answer (click here)
4. Basin wise water resource project development - Answer (click here)
5. Surface and Ground Water Resources - Answer (click here)
6. National Policy For Water Resources Development - Answer (click here)
7. Water Resources Planning - Answer (click here)
8. Water allocation priorities - Answer (click here)
9. Guidelines for drinking and irrigation water projects - Answer (click here)
10. Water quality - Answer (click here)
11. Drought prone area development - Answer (click here)
12. Water harvesting practices - Answer (click here)
13. Implementation of water resources projects - Answer (click here)
14. Precipitation And Evapotranspiration - Answer (click here)
15. Irrigation Water Requirements - Answer (click here)
16. Delineation of irrigation cropping pattern zones - Answer (click here)
17. Water characteristics and quality - Answer (click here)
18. Concepts for Planning Water Resources Development - Answer (click here)
19. Water budget and development plan - Answer (click here)
20. Ground-Water Systems Change in Response to Pumping - Answer (click
here)
21. High Plains Aquifer - Answer (click here)
22. Scope and aims of master plan in Irrigation Water - Answer (click here)
23. Purpose of the Water Resources Plan - Answer (click here)
24. Water Reservoir - Answer (click here)
25. Single Purpose Reservoirs - Answer (click here)
26. Multipurpose reservoirs - Answer (click here)
27. Fixation of Storage capacity - Answer (click here)
28. The functions of reservoirs - Answer (click here)
29. Sedimentation of reservoirs - Answer (click here)
30. Strategies for reservoir operation - Answer (click here)
31. Levees and Floodwalls - Answer (click here)
32. Advantages and Disadvantages of Levees and Floodwalls - Answer (click
here)

IRRIGATION ENGINEERING
1. Irrigation - Answer (click here)
2. Need and Development of Irrigation in India - Answer (click here)
3. Advantages And Disadvantages of Irrigation - Answer (click here)
4. Environmental Effects of Irrigation - Answer (click here)
5. Irrigation Requirements of Certain Important Indian crops - Answer (click
here)
6. Important Definitions in Crops Irrigation - Answer (click here)
7. Optimum Utilization of Irrigation Water - Answer (click here)
8. Crops and Crop seasons - Answer (click here)
9. Crops of Kharif Season - Answer (click here)
10. Crops of Rabi Season - Answer (click here)
11. Other Major Crops of Kharif Season and Rabi Season - Answer (click here)
12. Multiple Cropping and Hybrid Cropping - Answer (click here)
13. Water Requirements of Crops - Answer (click here)
14. Relation between duty of Water and delta for crops - Answer (click here)
15. Flow duty and Quantity duty - Answer (click here)
16. Irrigation Efficiencies - Answer (click here)
17. Planning of Irrigation Projects - Answer (click here)
18. Drip irrigation Method - Answer (click here)
19. Diversion Head Works: Weir and Barrage - Answer (click here)
20. Types of Diversion Weir and Tank Weir - Answer (click here)
21. Isolated Tanks and Tanks in Series - Answer (click here)
22. Earthen Dams and Rock Fill Dams - Answer (click here)
23. Type of Earthen Dams - Answer (click here)
24. Methods of constructing Earthen Dams - Answer (click here)
25. Clasication of Irrigation projects - Answer (click here)
26. Clasication of Masonry or concrete dams - Answer (click here)
27. Middle Third Rule - Answer (click here)
28. The Forces that are acting on the Dam Are - Answer (click here)
29. Forces Acting On Dams - Answer (click here)
30. Definition and Types of Arch Dams - Answer (click here)
31. Constant Radius Arch Dams and Angle Arch Dams - Answer (click here)
32. Forces Acting on Arch Dams - Answer (click here)

CANAL IRRIGATION
1. Canals - Answer (click here)
2. Command Areas - Answer (click here)
3. Planning of an Irrigation Canal System - Answer (click here)
4. Alignment Of Irrigation Canals - Answer (click here)
5. Curves In Canals - Answer (click here)
6. Duty of Water - Answer (click here)
7. Canal Losses - Answer (click here)
8. Estimation of Design Discharge af a Canal - Answer (click here)
9. Canal Outlets - Answer (click here)
10. Need and Types Of Cross-Drainage Structure - Answer (click here)
11. Selection of Suitable Cross Drainatge Structure - Answer (click here)
12. Design of Crossdrainage Structures - Answer (click here)
13. Canal Head Regulator - Answer (click here)
14. River Training For Canal Headworks - Answer (click here)
15. River Training - Answer (click here)
16. Classification of River Training Works - Answer (click here)
17. Principles and Methods of River Training - Answer (click here)
18. Planning For River Training Measures - Answer (click here)
19. Classification of Guide Banks - Answer (click here)
20. River Training: Design Parameters - Answer (click here)
21. Embankment as River Training Work - Answer (click here)
22. Bank Protection - Answer (click here)
23. Spurs (or) Groynes, (or) Spur Dike - Answer (click here)
24. Types of Spurs - Answer (click here)

IRRIGATION METHODS AND MANAGEMENT

1. Canal Irrigation System - Answer (click here)
2. Alignment of Canals - Answer (click here)
3. Types of Irrigation System - Answer (click here)
4. Distribution System for Canal Irrigation - Answer (click here)
5. Gravity Irrigation - Answer (click here)
6. Tank Irrigation - Answer (click here)
7. Lift Irrigation - Answer (click here)
8. Well Irrigation - Answer (click here)
 9. Techniques of Water Distribution in the Farms - Answer (click here)
10. Sprinkler Irrigation Method - Answer (click here)
11. Types of sprinkler systems - Answer (click here)
12. Advantage and limitations of sprinkler irrigation - Answer (click here)
13. Drip irrigation Method - Answer (click here)
14. Need for optimum use of water - Answer (click here)
15. Optimisation or Efficiency of Water Use in Agriculture - Answer (click
here)
16. Minimizing irrigation water losses - Answer (click here)
17. Approach to Planning, Construction and Maintenance of on Farm
Development Works - Answer (click here)
18. Status of Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) - Answer (click here)
19. Necessity of Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) - Answer (click
here)
20. Constraints in Implementation of PIM (Issues) - Answer (click here)
21. PIM as A Thrust Area/Priority Item - Answer (click here)
22. Functions of farmers’ organisations at different - Answer (click here)
23. A Rights Based Approach to Water User Associations In India - Answer
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24. Changing paradigms in water management - Answer (click here)