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Water Resources Engineering: History State of Water Resources in Philippines and Cavite

This document discusses water resources engineering in the Philippines and the province of Cavite. It provides background on water resources engineering, including its history and focus areas. It then analyzes the state of water resources in the Philippines and Cavite specifically. Some key challenges are identified, such as pollution of the Maragondon River and limited groundwater potential in some areas. The document concludes by assigning students to propose solutions to water challenges in Cavite or their own communities.

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Water Resources Engineering: History State of Water Resources in Philippines and Cavite

This document discusses water resources engineering in the Philippines and the province of Cavite. It provides background on water resources engineering, including its history and focus areas. It then analyzes the state of water resources in the Philippines and Cavite specifically. Some key challenges are identified, such as pollution of the Maragondon River and limited groundwater potential in some areas. The document concludes by assigning students to propose solutions to water challenges in Cavite or their own communities.

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WATER RESOURCES

ENGINEERING
• Introduction
• History
• State of Water Resources in Philippines and Cavite
DEFINITION
Water resources engineering has its roots in
task of:
• Supplying water for human use
• Removing water when humans are finished
using it
• Developingmethods of avoiding water
damage from excess water
DEFINITION
• Specific
kind of engineering that involve
design of new systems and equipment that
help manage human water resources

• Some touch water treatment facilities,


underground well and natural springs
WATER RESOURCES
ENGINEERING
• Engineeringfor both water supply management
and excess water management
• Analysis
and design of water problems: hydraulic
and hydrologic processes
 Pipe flow
 Open channel flow
 Groundwater flow
HISTORY
• Hasevolved over the past 9,000 to 10,000 years as
humans have developed knowledge and techniques for
building hydraulic structures to convey and store water
• Egyptians and Mesopotamians built irrigation networks
• Sadd-el-kafara– world’s oldest dam in Egypt built
between 2950 and 2690 BC (flood control)
HISTORY
• Oldest
known pressurized water distribution
(2000 BC) was in the ancient city of Knossos on
Crete
EARTH’S WATER RESOURCES
• Earth’swater resources includes rivers, lakes,
ocean, and groundwater aquifers which supply
water for irrigation, drinking, sanitation, industry
and provides habitat for aquatic life (Scanlon,
2007)
WATER RESOURCES
• Only0.78 percent of all the water in Earth, which is
coming from surface and groundwater, is available for
consumption of living things
• Due to rapid growth or population and industrialization,
there is an increasing and conflicting demand of water
for different uses
• Supply
and access to water is one of challenges that
humanity face today (Almaden, 2014)
STATE OF WATER RESOURCES
IN THE PHILIPPINES
• Sources
of water (atmospheric, surface water and
groundwater)
• 18 major river basins
• 79 lakes
• Laguna Lake – largest lake with an area of 3,813.2 square
meters
• Severalgroundwater basins are underlain by various rock
formations all around the country and some basins can be
found on Southern Luzon and Cavite-Batangas-Laguna
basins
• Groundwater contributes 14 percent of total water
resource potential of the country
Groundwater Surface Water
Southern Luzon 1,410 6,370
*values in MCM (Million Cubic Meters)
**Source: Greenpeace, 2007

• Cagayan Valley – has highest potential source of


groundwater
• NorthernMindanao – has highest potential source of
surface water
• Central
Visayas has lowest potential source for
groundwater and surface water
STATE OF WATER RESOURCES
IN CAVITE
Cavite
 142, 706 hectares in area
 4 cities
 19 municipalities
 829 barangays
 8 legislative districts
• Has six watersheds:
 Bacoor River Watershed
 Imus River Watershed
 Labac-Alebang River Watershed
 San Juan River Watershed
 Canas River Watershed
 Maragondon River Watershed
• Have several tributaries flowing from Tagaytay
City to Manila Bay with stretches from
municipality of Bacoor City up to Ternate
Water Supply Facilities
• Level 1 – exist in almost entire province except in
Carmona, GMA, and Magallanes
• Level 2 – Rosario, Silang, Tagaytay, Alfonso, Gen.
E. Aguinaldo, Indang, Magallanes and Naic
• Level 3 – available in all cities and municipality
(with service coverage ranging from 12% in Ternate
to 100% in Carmona and GMA)
Existing Water Service Providers
• Local Government Units (LGU)
• Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (MWSI)
• Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA)
supply 3 cities and 9 municipalities
• There are no public sewerage systems in Cavite
and most households dispose wastewater through
septic tanks which pass effluents directly into
canal or watercourses
• Agricultural areas, wastewater is disposed in
sealed latrines or watercourses and drains
• Groundwater pollution is a problem in coastal
areas
CHALLENGES
• Maragondon River – has highest significant sustainable
flow but receives contaminant effluents from large tracts
of agricultural production areas
• Development of groundwater resources through wells is
not recommended in Tagaytay, Alfonso and Mendez
(Elev > 300 m) as it might effect flow of springs used by
local water districts
• Ternate and Maragondon have poor aquifer potential
• Naic and Ternate – avoided due to possible saline
intrusion
ASSIGNMENT
• Discuss 1-3 best solutions to the water challenges that we face today.
• If you live outside Cavite, you can state other problems related to water
resources/management in your community, then discuss your proposed
solutions.
• Once you have access to the CvSU LMS (CvSU eLearning), submit/upload
your answers there.
• Please make your assignment concise. 100-200 words will do. Best answer will
have additional points!

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