TPCT’S
TERNA PUBLIC CHARITABLE TRUST’S
TERNA ENGINEERING COLLEGE
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING (CEC602)
University Question Bank
Sr. Questions
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Module 1:- Irrigation Methods and Water Requirements of Crops
1 Write a short note on irrigation: its benefits and drawbacks
2 Describe in brief about ring basin method
3 Define irrigation and discuss in brief disadvantages of irrigation
4 Define Duty, delta & base period. Derive the relation between them
5 Define irrigation and explain the necessity, benefits and ill effects of irrigation in India
6 What are the factors affecting duty
7 Discuss in brief various methods of sub surface irrigation
8 Describe the salient features of National water Policy
9 Discuss in brief various methods of surface irrigation
10 What do you understand by crop rotation? What are its advantages
11 Write a short note on Sprinkler irrigation. Also mention its advantages & disadvantages
12 Write a short note on Drip irrigation
Module 2:- Hydrology
13 Write a short note on various methods of calculating missing rainfall
14 Describe the various components of hydrograph and hyetographs with neat diagrams
15 Explain any one of the automatic rain gauges with the help of diagram
16 Define Precipitation. Explain in detail different types of precipitation
17 What are the forms of precipitation
18 Explain hydrological cycle with the help of diagram
19 What is hydrograph? Draw a single peaked hydrograph and explain its components
20 What is runoff? What are the factors that affect the runoff from catchment area?
21 Define hydrology
22 Explain any one recording type rain gauge along with a neat diagram
Module 3:- Ground water and Well hydraulics
Define the following: aquifer, aquifuge, aquiclude, aquitard, perched aquifer, drawdown,
23 cone of depression, specific yield, specific retention
24 Write a short note on well interference
25 Draw neat sketch of confined aquifer and name the components
Derive an expression for the steady state discharge of well fully penetrating into an
26 unconfined aquifer OR Derive equilibrium equation for discharge in unconfined aquifer
27 Derive an expression discharge from a well fully penetrating into a confined aquifer
28 Differentiate between open well and tube well
29 Write a short note on aquifer tests
Module 4:- Dams and Spillways
Explain in detail the various zones of storage in a reservoir, also draw a neat diagram for the
30 same
31 Define spillways and their types and purpose
32 Describe in detail the various modes of failure of gravity dam
33 Differentiate between elementary & practical profile of gravity dam
34 What are the various forces acting on a gravity dam
35 What are the factors affecting selection of site for reservoir
36 Describe various types of earthen dams
37 Explain methods of control of sedimentation
Module 5:- Irrigation channels(Silt theories)
38 Compare the Kennedy’s and Lacey’s theories &drawbacks
Module 6:- Canal Headwork Distribution systems and Canal structures
39 Describe in brief about the canal escapes
40 Describe with the help of sketches various types of cross Drainage work
41 Enlist types of canal lining.
42 Enumerate various causes of water logging
43 What is meant by canal lining? What are its advantages and disadvantages
44 Write a short note on canal falls
