Application
Cards (9)
- application
- traditional applications
- modern applications
- special applications
- management
- flood control
- traditional application
- irrigation
- drinking water
- power generation
- water quality
- modern application
- geographical information system (GIS)
- remote sensing
- statistical & computer applications in water resources
- special application
- rainwater harvesting
- watershed management
- artificial recharge techniques
- management
- planning of water resources & basin management
- reservoir planning
- linear and dynamic programming in water planning
- irrigation methods
- sprinkler - applying water in the form of spray resembling rainfall through the nozzle with a pump
- drip - supply of water to plants by a network of tubes with water under pressure
- surge - delivering irrigation flows into individual long furrows in an intermittent fashion of predetermined on-off time cycles with the design duration of irrigation
- flood - water is delivered to the field by ditch, pipe, or some other means and simply flows over the ground through the crop
- dam
- for flood protection, storage, power, fishing, and navigation
- flood types
- coastal/tidal - caused by the sea and tidal rivers
- surface/pluvial - happens when the earth is saturated with water from rainfall which cannot run off
- river/fluvial - occurs when rivers overflows
- groundwater - occurs as a result of water rising up from the underlying rocks or from water flowing from abnormal springs
- flood causes
- increased urbanization
- bad farming practice
- deforestation
- storms
- ice and snow melting
- moon phases