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Elaborate Module 8 Water Resources Engineering Concepts and Structures

The document discusses the development and sustainable utilization of water resources. It notes that technological intervention is needed to develop water resources to meet uneven human demand. Sustainable development means meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Water quality is increasingly threatened by pollution from population growth, urbanization, and industry. Structural tools like dams, barrages, canals, and tunnels are used to store and transport surface water, while wells and tube wells tap groundwater. The development of water resources must not degrade current water quality or quantity and must be sustainable for the future.

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Elaborate Module 8 Water Resources Engineering Concepts and Structures

The document discusses the development and sustainable utilization of water resources. It notes that technological intervention is needed to develop water resources to meet uneven human demand. Sustainable development means meeting present needs without compromising future generations' ability to meet their own needs. Water quality is increasingly threatened by pollution from population growth, urbanization, and industry. Structural tools like dams, barrages, canals, and tunnels are used to store and transport surface water, while wells and tube wells tap groundwater. The development of water resources must not degrade current water quality or quantity and must be sustainable for the future.

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ELABORATE

Development of water resources

Due to its multiple benefits and the problems created by its excesses, shortages and
quality deterioration, water as a resource requires special attention. Requirement of
technological/engineering intervention for development of water resources to meet the
varied requirements of man or the human demand for water, which are also unevenly
distributed, is hence essential.

The development of water resources, though a necessity, is now pertinent to be made


sustainable. The concept of sustainable development implies that development meets
the needs of the present life, without compromising on the ability of the future
generation to meet their own needs.

Sustainable Water Utilization

The quality of water is being increasingly threatened by pollutant load, which is on the
rise as a consequence of rising population, urbanization, industrialization, increased use
of agricultural chemicals, etc. Both the surface and ground water have gradually
increased in contamination level. Technological intervention in the form of providing
sewerage system for all urban conglomerates, low cost sanitation system for all rural
households, water treatment plants for all industries emanating polluted water, etc. has
to be made. Contamination of ground water due to over-exploitation has also emerged
as a serious problem. It is difficult to restore ground water quality once the aquifer is
contaminated. Ground water contamination occurs due to human interference and also
natural factors. To promote human health, there is urgent need to prevent
contamination of ground water and also promote and develop cost-effective techniques
for purifying contaminated ground water for use in rural areas like solar stills.

In summary, the development of water resources potential should be such that in doing
so there should not be any degradation in the quality or quantity of the
resources available at present. Thus the development should be sustainable for future.

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Structural tools for water resource development

Dams are detention structures for storing water of streams and rivers. The water stored
in the reservoir created behind the dam may be used gradually, depending on demand.

Barrages are diversion structures which help to divert a portion of the stream and river
for meeting demands for irrigation or hydropower. They also help to increase the level
of the water slightly which may be advantageous from the point of view of increasing
navigability or to provide a pond from where water may be drawn to meet domestic or
industrial water demand.

Canals/Tunnels are conveyance structures for transporting water over long distances for
irrigation or hydropower.
These structural options are used to utilize surface water to its maximum possible
extent. Other structures for utilizing ground water include rainwater detentions tanks,
wells and tube wells.

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