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    Lecture 7 Water Resource Engineering

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    Water resource engineering is a specialty of civil engineering that involves managing water resources through infrastructure like dams, canals, and water distribution systems. It uses scientific and engineering principles to study the hydrologic cycle and design structures that store and transport water while preventing destruction to life and property. Water resource engineers plan, design, and maintain facilities and systems that ensure societies' water needs are met by estimating supply and demand and considering factors like budgets, regulations, and conveyance losses. Their work involves specialties like hydraulic, river, coastal, and groundwater engineering.

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    Water resource engineering is a specialty of civil engineering that involves managing water resources through infrastructure like dams, canals, and water distribution systems. It uses scientific and engineering principles to study the hydrologic cycle and design structures that store and transport water while preventing destruction to life and property. Water resource engineers plan, design, and maintain facilities and systems that ensure societies' water needs are met by estimating supply and demand and considering factors like budgets, regulations, and conveyance losses. Their work involves specialties like hydraulic, river, coastal, and groundwater engineering.

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    Water resource engineering is a specialty of civil engineering that involves managing water resources through infrastructure like dams, canals, and water distribution systems. It uses scientific and engineering principles to study the hydrologic cycle and design structures that store and transport water while preventing destruction to life and property. Water resource engineers plan, design, and maintain facilities and systems that ensure societies' water needs are met by estimating supply and demand and considering factors like budgets, regulations, and conveyance losses. Their work involves specialties like hydraulic, river, coastal, and groundwater engineering.

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    Water resource engineering is a specialty of civil engineering that involves managing water resources through infrastructure like dams, canals, and water distribution systems. It uses scientific and engineering principles to study the hydrologic cycle and design structures that store and transport water while preventing destruction to life and property. Water resource engineers plan, design, and maintain facilities and systems that ensure societies' water needs are met by estimating supply and demand and considering factors like budgets, regulations, and conveyance losses. Their work involves specialties like hydraulic, river, coastal, and groundwater engineering.

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    Water Resource

    Engineering
    What is Water Resource
    Engineering?

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    ◉ a specialization of Civil Engineering which involves the:
    ◉ control of water resources to prevent destruction to life and
    properties
    ◉ preservation and management of water resources for human,
    agricultural, industrial, and navigation purposes

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    ◉ involves scientific methods and engineering principles in
    the collection and interpretation of the physical, chemical,
    and mechanical properties of water

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    ◉ the quantitative study of the hydrologic cycle (water cycle) –
    the distribution and circulation of water linking the earth’s
    atmosphere, land, and bodies of water

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    ◉  Water Resource Engineering is concerned with the technical
    aspects of how the water is stored and chanelled to other
    locations.

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    ◉ This field deal with the design and construction of hydraulic
    structures. These structures include dams, canals and water
    distribution system.

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    What do Water Resource
    Engineers do?

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    plan, design, manage, and maintain facilities such as

    ◉ spillways
    ◉ drainages and drainage systems
    ◉ sewers
    ◉ canals
    ◉ irrigation systems
    ◉ dams

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    ◉ dikes
    ◉ breakwaters
    ◉ reservoirs
    ◉ pumps
    ◉ water and wastewater treatment systems or plants
    ◉ pipes and pipe networks

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    ◉ water conveyance systems
    ◉ water tanks and storage systems
    ◉ seepage control systems
    ◉ hydroelectric powerplants
    ◉ navigation systems

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    to ensure that the water requirements of the society and the
    environment are met, the quantities of the following are
    estimated:

    ◉ current available water supply


    ◉ current water demand
    ◉ projected water supply and demand considering significant
    factors
    ◉ conveyance losses from water source to point of
    consumption

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    ◉ considers budgetary constraints, government regulations,
    and other factors when planning and designing related
    structures
    ◉ They ensure water can be channelled where it is needed in a
    safe and efficient way.

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    ◉ Plan and manage the tasks that are required to maintain
    water quality. 

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    Major Specialties of
    Water Resource
    Engineering

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    Hydraulic Engineering

    ◉ concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids,


    principally water; intimately related to the design of
    pipelines, water supply network, drainage facilities
    (including bridges, dams, levees, channels, culverts, storm
    sewers), and canals.

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    River Engineering

    ◉  It is the process of planned human intervention in the


    course, characteristics, or flow of a river with the intention
    of producing some defined benefit—to manage the water
    resources, to protect against flooding, or to make passage
    along or across rivers easier.

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    Coastal Engineering

    ◉ It is the study of the processes ongoing at the shoreline and


    construction within the coastal zone, often directed at
    combating erosion of coasts or providing navigational
    access.

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    Groundwater Engineering

    ◉  It involves the analysis, monitoring and often modeling of


    groundwater source to better understand how much
    remains and if the water can be used for e.g. recharging
    reservoirs and irrigation.

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    Areas of Study

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    A Water Resources Engineer must be knowledgeable of the
    following:

    ◉ Water sources:
    ◉ Surface runoff (from precipitation)
    ◉ Groundwater
    ◉ Lakes
    ◉ Rivers
    ◉ Streams
    ◉ Oceans

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    ◉ Water qualities and properties
    ◉ Water pollution
    ◉ Hydrology (particularly Hydrologic cycle)
    ◉ Fluid mechanics

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    ◉ Hydraulics
    ◉ Laboratory apparatus and equipment used within the areas
    of study of the specialization
    ◉ Other related principles from the various subdisciplines of
    Civil Engineering and allied sciences

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    Fin.

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