California Drought? California is suffering from one of the worst droughts and everyone from businesses‚ wildlife‚ farmers‚ and residents are highly impacted. According to NASA‚ California needs 11 trillion gallons of water to recover from the drought (Robles). There are several solutions occurring that are aimed to minimize the effects of the drought such as‚ water conservation and new technologies. Water conservation is important to control and can be done by limiting water usage through cutting
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MAHARASHTRA DROUGHT- A MANMADE TRAGEDY BY DILIP KUMAR ROY Maharashtra experienced severe and successive years of drought in 1970-74 and 2000 – 04. One-third of Maharashtra has now been affected by drought‚ which officials and activists fear could be worse than the one in 1972‚ the worst Maharashtra has ever known. Successive dry spells in the past two years have induced severe drought in parts of Maharasthra such as Vidarbha and Marathwada‚ where availability of drinking water
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RAIN WATER HARVESTING AND ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE TO GROUND WATER WHAT IS RAIN WATER HARVESTING : The principle of collecting and using precipitation from a catchments surface. An old technology is gaining popularity in a new way. Rain water harvesting is enjoying a renaissance of sorts in the world‚ but it traces its history to biblical times. Extensive rain water harvesting apparatus existed 4000 years ago in the Palestine and Greece. In ancient Rome‚ residences were built with individual
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UNIT 2: Natural Resources 2.1 INTRODUCTION 2.2 RENEWABLE AND NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES 2.2.1 Natural resources and associated problems 2.2.2 Non-renewable resources 2.2.3 Renewable resources a. Forest Resources: Use and over-exploitation‚ deforestation‚ case studies. Timber extraction‚ mining‚ dams and their effects on forests and tribal people b. Water Resources: Use and over-utilisation of surface and ground water‚ floods‚ drought‚ conflicts over water‚ dams – benefits and problems. c. Mineral
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LAB #3 TITLE: SPECIES DIVERSITY AIM: To determine how moisture content of sand influences the distribution of fauna along a sandy beach. MATERIALS: 100m transect‚1m x 1m quadrat‚shovel‚30cm ruler‚40cm x40cm sieve‚ digital probe‚ sweep net PROCEDURE: 1. The area was selected for the 100m transect to be laid. 2. The transect was carefully placed ensuring that the end of the transect was in the moist part of sand. 3. The quadrat was placed along the transect on either sides. 4
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LABORATORY REPORT COMPACTION OF SOIL PROCTOR’S TEST PREPARED BY: NAME MATRIX NO. MOHAMMAD ARZWAN BIN ABDUL RAHMAN 2012235468 MUHAMAD HAMIDDIN BIN MD KOMA 2012494124 MUHAMMAD FAISAL BIN MOHD RASHID 2012899292 PREPARED FOR: DR. MAZIDAH BINTI MUKRI INTRODUCTION Compaction is the process of densification of soil by reducing air voids.The degree of compaction of a given soil is measured in terms of its dry density.The dry density is maximum at the optimum water content.A curve
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Lab 5 – Weather and Climate Change Lab 5 - Demonstration 1: Modeling the Water Cycle POST LAB QUESTIONS 1. Which water cycle processes are represented in this model and by what components? Answer = Evaporation‚ condensation‚ sublimation‚ and precipitation. 2. Which processes are not represented? How could the model be altered to include these processes? Answer = Transpiration‚ surface run-off‚ infiltration‚ and percolation. With or by adding sand and possibly plants to the assignment
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Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University‚ Bhilai SCHEME OF TEACHING & EXAMINATION B.E. VIII SEMESTER CIVIL ENGINEERING L S.No Board of . Study Subject Code Subject T Scheme of Examination Total Credit Theory/Pract. Marks L+(T+P)/ 2 P ESE CT TA Periods per Week 1 Civil Engg. 320811 ( 20 ) Structural Engineering Design - IV 4 1 - 80 20 20 120 5 2 Civil Engg. 320812 ( 20 ) Water Resources Engineering - II 4 1 -
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Gabrielle Simard-Moore 11.5 Paradox of Safe Yield Safe yield was originally defined as the amount of water that could be developed from a ground water reservoir without depletion of its reserves. Over time the definition has changed as economics‚ protection of ground water‚ and environmental affects have been considered in this concept as well. So‚ safe yield is now defined as the amount of naturally occurring ground water that can be taken from an aquifer on a regular basis‚ economically and
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Using named examples‚ assess the contribution of large scale water management projects in increasing water security. 15 Water security means having access to sufficient‚ safe‚ clean and affordable water. Theoretically‚ the world’s poorer countries are the most water insecure‚ suffering from both physical and economic water scarcity. One solution to tackle water insecurity is through large scale water projects for example the Three Gorges project in China‚ the South-North transfer project also in
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