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1) The document provides 5 word problems related to water budget calculations. It gives information about rainfall, reservoir inflows and outflows, catchment area, stream discharge, and evaporation to calculate water inputs, outputs, storage, and runoff ratios. 2) The problems calculate rainfall runoff into a reservoir, change in reservoir storage over time, runoff from a catchment after a storm, rate of reservoir withdrawal, and annual water budget for a catchment divided into sub-areas. 3) The questions require using information about area, rainfall, evaporation, discharge, storage, seepage, inflows and outflows to calculate runoff ratios and unknown values like change in

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Tutorial 1 Aug 2021

1) The document provides 5 word problems related to water budget calculations. It gives information about rainfall, reservoir inflows and outflows, catchment area, stream discharge, and evaporation to calculate water inputs, outputs, storage, and runoff ratios. 2) The problems calculate rainfall runoff into a reservoir, change in reservoir storage over time, runoff from a catchment after a storm, rate of reservoir withdrawal, and annual water budget for a catchment divided into sub-areas. 3) The questions require using information about area, rainfall, evaporation, discharge, storage, seepage, inflows and outflows to calculate runoff ratios and unknown values like change in

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UCE 401 T

August, 2021

TUTORIAL 1

WATER BUDGET EQUATION

1. Two and half centimeters of rain per day over an area of 200 km2 is equivalent to average rate of input
of how many cubic meters per second of water to that area?

2. A reservoir has following inflows and outflows (in m3) for the first three months of the year. If the
storage at beginning of January is 60 m3, determine the storage at the end of March.

Month Jan Feb March


Inflow 4 6 9
Outflow 8 11 5

3. A small catchment of area 150 ha received a rainfall of 10.5 cm in 90 minutes due to storm. At the
outlet of catchment, the stream draining the catchment was dry before the storm and experiences a
runoff lasting for 10 hours with an average discharge of 1.5 m3/s. The stream was dry again after the
runoff event. What is the amount of water which was not available to runoff due to combined effect
of infiltration, evaporation, and transpiration? What is ratio of runoff to precipitation?

4. Estimate the constant rate of withdrawal from a 1375 ha reservoir in a month of 30 days during which
the reservoir level dropped by 0.75 m in spite of an average inflow into the reservoir of 0.5 Mm3/day.
During the month the average seepage loss from the reservoir was 2.5 cm, total precipitation on
reservoir was 18.5 cm and total evaporation was 9.5 cm.

5. A catchment has four sub areas. The annual precipitation and evaporation from each of sub areas are
given below. Assume that there is no change in groundwater storage on an annual basis, calculate for
the whole catchment the values of annual average (i) precipitation, and (ii) evaporation. What are the
ratios of runoff to precipitation for each sub areas and for the total catchment taken as a whole?

Sub area Area (Mm2) Annual precipitation Annual evaporation


(mm) (mm)
A 10.7 1030 530
B 3.0 830 438
C 8.2 900 430
D 17.0 1300 600

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