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This document contains a tutorial on water resources systems. It provides 5 examples of water budget calculations for various hydrological systems: 1) A lake where water levels are calculated based on monthly inflows, outflows, rainfall, and evaporation. 2) A small catchment where the amount of water unavailable for runoff due to infiltration is calculated based on rainfall and discharge data. 3) A larger catchment where the runoff coefficient is calculated based on annual rainfall and streamflow over different time periods. 4) A river reach where storage is calculated after an interval based on inflows and outflows. 5) A catchment with sub-areas where annual precipitation, evaporation,

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Tutorial 1

This document contains a tutorial on water resources systems. It provides 5 examples of water budget calculations for various hydrological systems: 1) A lake where water levels are calculated based on monthly inflows, outflows, rainfall, and evaporation. 2) A small catchment where the amount of water unavailable for runoff due to infiltration is calculated based on rainfall and discharge data. 3) A larger catchment where the runoff coefficient is calculated based on annual rainfall and streamflow over different time periods. 4) A river reach where storage is calculated after an interval based on inflows and outflows. 5) A catchment with sub-areas where annual precipitation, evaporation,

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UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

Faculty

Course

Year/
Semester
Session

Lee Kong Chian Faculty of


Engineering and Science
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)
Civil Engineering
2015/Jan

2014/2015

Unit Code

UEMX4533

Unit Title

Water Resources System

Lecturer/Tutor :

Dr. Charlene Koo Chai Hoon

Tutorial 1 Water Supply & Demand / Water Budget


1.

A lake had a water surface elevation of 50,000 m above datum at the beginning of a certain
month. In that month, the lake received an average inflow of 9.0 m3/s from surface runoff
source. In the same period the outflow from the lake had an average value of 3.5 m3/s.
Further, in that month, the lake received a rainfall of 100 mm and the evaporation from the
lake surface was estimated as 30 mm. Write the water budget equation for the lake and
calculate the water surface elevation of the lake at the end of the month. The average lake
surface area can be taken as 2000 ha. Assume that there is no contribution to or from the
groundwater storage. (Ans: 50.5828 m)

2.

A small catchment of area 100 ha received a rainfall of 13.5 cm in 60 minutes due to a storm.
At the outlet of the catchment, the stream draining the catchment was dry before the storm
and experienced a runoff lasting for 10 hours with an average discharge of 3 m3/s. The
stream was again dry after the runoff event.
(i) What is the amount of water which was not available to runoff due to combined effect
of infiltration, evaporation and transpiration? (Ans: 27,000 m3)
(ii) What is the ratio of runoff to precipitation (Runoff Coefficient)? (Ans: 0.2)

3.

A catchment area of 140 km2 received 120 cm of rainfall in a year. At the outlet of the
catchment the flow in the stream draining the catchment was found to have an average rate
of 2.0 m3/s for 3 months, 3.0 m3/s for 6 months and 5.0 m3/s for 3 months.
(i) What is the runoff coefficient of the catchment? (Ans: 0.6101)
(ii) If the afforestation of the catchment reduces the runoff coefficient to 0.50, what is the
increase in the abstraction from precipitation due to infiltration, evaporation and
transpiration, for the same annual rainfall of 120 cm? (Ans: 18.492 Mm3)

4.

A river had a flood wave passing through it. At a given instant the storage of water in the
river was estimated as 15.5 ha.m. What would be the storage in the river after an interval of
3 hr if the average inflow and outflow during the time period are 14.2 m3/s and 10.6 m3/s,
respectively? (Ans: 19.388 ha.m)

5.

A catchment has four sub-areas. The annual precipitation and evaporation from each of the
sub-areas are given below.
Sub-area

Area (Mm2)

Annual Precipitation (mm)

Annual Evaporation (mm)

A
B
C
D

10.7
3.0
8.2
17.0

1030
830
900
1300

530
438
430
600

Assume that there is no change in the groundwater storage on an annual basis. Determine the
whole catchment the values of annual average (i) precipitation, and (ii) evaporation. What
are the annual runoff coefficients for the sub-areas and for the total catchment taken as a
whole? (Ans: 1105.2 mm, 532.4 mm, 0.485, 0.4752, 0.522, 0.538, 0.518)

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