Even Semester 2017-18

Department of Civil Engineering

Amity School of Engineering & Technology

Water Resources Engineering:

An option as a Career Path for Civil Engineers
 What is Water Resources Engineering?
A branch within Civil Engineering among other branches.

Water resources engineers are concerned

with collection, distribution, and management
of water
 Examples of Application of Water
Resources Engineering

Flash Flood in mountainous

areas– needs protection Landslide from heavy rainfall
– needs protective measures

A dam for flood protection, A water intake point (for

storage, power, fishing and consumption) from a stream
navigation
 More Examples

Water distribution from river

– reservoir and canal River Training - Protection
construction

Canal Construction
Hydraulic Structures
 More Examples

Water Treatment Plant draws water

directly from a River. You cannot use
directly Wastewater Treatment plant – used
water can not just be thrown back – it
will kill the fishes and the
environment. Must treat it first

Civil Engineers design and lay water

distribution system for cities
 A More specific Example
(Job Type for a Water Resources Engineer)
Design the water distribution and storage system for Delhi
NCR. Design life will be 50 years

How will a Civil Engineer do it?

Factor Population Growth of Region
Factor how much water is needed (after 50 years)
Is the water available enough to meet demand?
Factor how much water is available (from groundwater,
rivers, lakes)
No – then plan storage system (reservoir) – But how big
should it be?
Water Resource Engineering –
Areas??

Hydrology Irrigation
Engg

Planning of Design &

Water Analysis of
resource Hydraulic
mgmt Structure
 Managing Water Supplies

- Gathering, storing and transporting water from where it is

located to where it needs to be consumed
- Gathering & Storing : Construction of Dams, Reservoirs
- Available surface water
- Geology of watershed
- Geology of proposed construction site
- Best location for construction
- Precipitation pattern
- River Discharge
- Effect of construction
- Capacity of Reservoir
 Making water usable

- Planning of watercourses, pipelines and treatment facilities to distribute

water to the many users is urban and rural areas
- pumping water from underground aquifers for use in municipal water
systems
- treatment to remove impurities and ensure that it is safe for human
consumption
 Flood Damage Prevention

- Prevention of coastal flooding

- Study of rainfall pattern, flash floods, heavy rainfall
- Analysis of impact of flood on hydraulic structure
- River course change
- Design of Dikes and Spillways
 Cutting-edge Technology that Water
Resources Engineering Will Use in
Future
Civil Engineers studying
Hydrology will have to learn to
deal with satellites soon.
Satellites can measure:
Rainfall, River discharge, soil
moisture, evaporation from
soils, soil temperature,
Track Hurricanes
 •The rainfall on five successive days on a
• IES 2014 catchment was 3,6,9,5 and 1cm
respectively.If the cp-index for the storm
can be assumed to be 3 cm/day, the total
direct runoff from the catchment due to this
storm is
• 11 cm
• 24 cm
• 9 cm
• 20 cm
•Answer –11 cm
•The excess runoff hydro-graph from a
catchment area 10 km square due to a
storm of 6hrs duration has been observed
to be triangular in shape.The peak flow is
observed to be 10 m cube/s and the base
length is 20 hrs.The rainfall excess in the
catchment is
• 5.1cm
• 3.6cm
• 4.5 cm
• 2.5 cm
•Answer — 3.6cm
 Job Opportunities
Government Organization:
CPWD
PWD
NHPC
NTPC
CWC
Private Organization:
MWH Global
Lahmeyer International India
Entegra
eGIS
Arcadis, DHI and many more
 Further Information
• Syllabus

• http://nptel.ac.in/courses/105104103/

• http://nptel.ac.in/courses/Webcourse-
contents/IIT%20Kharagpur/Water%20Res
ource%20Engg/New_index1.html