24/07/2018 Water Economics And Governance - - Unit 2 - Week 1

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Unit 2 - Week 1

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Week 1 Multiple choice questions each carrying one mark.

1.1) 1. Water Economics and Governance Managements should be studied as Invalid HTML1 point
Lecture 1:
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Lecture 2: a) Engineering discipline

Global Water
b) Managements discipline
Availability and
Uses c) Economics discipline
d) Interdisciplinary
Lecture 3:
Water
No, the answer is incorrect.
Availability and
Uses in India
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
Lecture 4:
Surface Water
d) Interdisciplinary
and Ground
2) 2. The correct order of locations, showing decreasing residence time of water, is: 1 point
Water
Resources
a) Oceans > Glaciers > Groundwater > Rivers
Lecture 5: b) Glaciers > Oceans > Groundwater > Rivers
Water Use
Practices and
c) Glaciers > Groundwater > Oceans > Rivers
Major d) Oceans > Groundwater > Glaciers > Rivers
Challenges
No, the answer is incorrect.
Quiz : Score: 0
Assignment 1
Accepted Answers:
Feedback for b) Glaciers > Oceans > Groundwater > Rivers
Week 1
3) 3. The change in surface water storage in a watershed using water budget equation would 1 point
Week 1 Lecture
Material be given as (ignoring any stream water inflow):

Solutions to a) Precipitation – Infiltration - Evapotranspiration – Net runoff from watershed

Assignment 1
b) Precipitation + Infiltration - Evapotranspiration – Net runoff from watershed
Week 2 c) Precipitation – Infiltration + Evapotranspiration – Net runoff from watershed
d) Precipitation + Infiltration + Evapotranspiration – Net runoff from watershed
Week 3
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 4
Accepted Answers:
Week 5 a) Precipitation – Infiltration - Evapotranspiration – Net runoff from watershed

4) 4. Which of these continents receive the highest precipitation per unit area: 1 point
Week 6
a) Europe
Week 7
b) Asia

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Week 8 c) Africa
d) South America
Week 9
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Week 10
Accepted Answers:
Week 11 d) South America

5) 5. Which of these are NOT a river of the Deccan plateau: 1 point

Week 12
a) Narmada
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b) Krishna
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c) Brahmaputra
Interactive d) Mahanadi
Session
No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
c) Brahmaputra

6) 6. Water audit is very essential for the effective water management, because: 1 point

a) It helps in identifying specific issues related to sectoral water consumptions and losses
b) It arranges finance for dealing with the water management challenges
c) It suggests technical and engineering solutions for the effective water management
d) All of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
a) It helps in identifying specific issues related to sectoral water consumptions and losses

7) 7. The rapid reduction in groundwater table in several regions in India is primarily the result 1 point
of:

a) Climate Change
b) Over exploitation of groundwater for irrigation
c) Groundwater abstraction for domestic uses
d) Lack of artificial groundwater recharge

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
b) Over exploitation of groundwater for irrigation

8) 8. The most influential driver for increasing water demand from domestic sector in India, is: 1 point

a) Increasing per capita water consumption

b) Population growth
c) Industrialization with water intensive industries
d) All of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
b) Population growth

9) 9. Which state has the highest percentage of total annual replenishable ground water 1 point
resources in India?

a) Andhra Pradesh and Telangana combined

b) Karnataka
c) Madhya Pradesh
d) Uttar Pradesh

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No, the answer is incorrect.
Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
d) Uttar Pradesh

Multiple choice questions each carrying two marks.

10)1. “India has more than 17% of the world’s population, but has only 4% of world’s renewable2 points
water resources with 2.6% of world’s land area”. Based on the fact above, identify if the following
statements are correct: A. India has lesser fresh water availability per unit land area compared to the
world average B. India has higher fresh water availability per unit land area compared to the world
average C. India has lesser per capita fresh water availability compared to the world average D. India
has higher per capita fresh water availability compared to the world average

a) Statements A and C are correct, while B and D are incorrect

b) Statements A and D are correct, while B and C are incorrect
c) Statements B and C are correct, while A and D are incorrect
d) Statements B and D are correct, while A and C are incorrect

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
c) Statements B and C are correct, while A and D are incorrect

11)2. A 400hectares sub-catchment receives 1100mm annual rainfall and generates 2 points
600m
3
of average daily runoff from the sub-catchment. If there is no water flow into the sub-catchment,
what would be the net annual change in the surface storage, considering evapotranspiration and
infiltration as 42% and 36% of precipitation, respectively:

a)2333000m3

b)3213000m3

c)4181000m3

d) 749000m3

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
d) 749000m3

12)3. A lake had a water surface elevation of 103.200m above datum at the beginning of a 2 points
certain month. In that month the lake received an average inflow of 6.0m3 /s from surface runoff
sources. In the same period the outflow from the lake had an average value of 6.5m3 /s . Further, in that
month, the lake received a rainfall of 145mm and the evaporation from the lake surface was estimated
as 6.10cm. What will be the water surface elevation of the lake at the end of the month assuming no
contribution to or from the groundwater storage? The average lake surface area may be taken as
5000hectares .

a) 103.780m

b) 103.258m

c) 103.205m

d) 109.000m

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
Accepted Answers:
b) 103.258m

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