Water Resource

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1. Agricultural period where the soil moisture is inadequate 17. Drip Irrigation applies water as a discrete drops on a slow
Drought to initiate and sustain crops growth nearly continuous basis
2. Basin confines water to a given area ponding over 18. Drought generally associated with sustained periods
Irrigation the area but does not remain ponded for a of significantly lower soil moisture level
long time
19. Economic concerns the economic areas of human
3. Bonder-Strip applies water to one end of a rectangular Drought activity affected by drought as a result of
Irrigation strip of sloping land so that the water physical process
advances down slope and either runs-off the
20. Elasticity of responsiveness of the consumers purchase
end or ponds
Demand to varying price
4. Bubbler applies water to the land surface on small
21. Evaporative- pass water in a secondary cooling loop
Irrigation stream from tubes that are attached to buried
cooling Tower through an air stream, where it is cooled
laterals
System and then recycled to the condensers
5. Center-pivot supply water at a central point and a lateral
22. Firm Yield defined as the largest quantity of flow rate
Irrigation line rotates around its center
that is dependable at given site along the
System
stream at all times
6. Central a 336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels,
23. Flood Control simply retention or detention of water
Arizona pumping plants and pipelines. Constructed by
during flood event
Project the US Bureau of Reclamation
(CAP) 24. Furrow uses furrow that are dug between crops
Irrigation panted in rows to control and guide water
7. Conservation include water supply, low-flow augumention
for either steep land
Purposes for water quality, recreation, navigation,
irrigation and hydroelectric power which is 25. Gleick point out the term "water use" has
water saved for later use encompased many different ideas to mean
the withdrawal, gross water use and
8. Consumptive part of water withdrawn that is evaporated,
consumptive use
Use transpired, incorporated into product or
crops, consumed by humans or livestock, or 26. Gross water distinguished from water withdrawal by the
otherwise removed from the immediate water use inclusion of recirculated or reused water
environment 27. Grunewald et. states that "traditionally, water utility
9. Conveyance quantity of water that is lost in transit from a al (1976) manager have adjusted water quantity than
Loss pipe, canal, conduit etc. price as changes in demand occured"

10. Cooling basically large ponds where warm water is 28. Hand-move fixed sprinkler that are dissembled, moved
Ponds stored or detained to allow cooling before Sprinkler and reassembled between irrigation
returning to the boilers 29. Hydrologic period of below-normal stream flow
11. Critical begins when the reservoir is full and ends Drought and/or depleted reservoir storage
Drawdown when reservoir is empty 30. Instream Use water that is used, but not withdrawn from
Period a surface- or groundwater source
12. Critical time period over which the flow have reached 31. Level Basin no soil surface slope in any direction
Period minimum, causing the greatest drawdown of Irrigation
reservoir
32. Mass Curve plot of cumulative flow volumes as a
13. Critical begins at the end of preceeding high-flow function of time
Period period that leaves the reservoir full
33. Meteorological time when the actual cumulative moisture
14. Delivery and amount of water delivered to the point of use Drought supply falls short
Release and the amount released after use
34. Micro- category of various types of low emission
15. Demand general concept denoting the willingness of irrigation rate devices
the consumer to purchase goods, services or
35. Offstream Use water withdrawn or diverted from surface
inputs to production processes
or groundwater source for public water
16. Demand quantity of commodity that a consumer is suppy, industry, irrigation etc.
Fucntion willing to purchase to price income and other
variable
36. Once- withdraw water from source, passes the water 55. Thermal largest consumptive use of water for
through through condensers and then immediately Power electricity production
Cooling returns the water to the source at an Production
evaluated temperature
56. Total Water includes the water needed by the crops in
37. Operating used to specify how water is managed in a Requirement addition to the losses associated with
Rules reservoir and throughout a reservoir system application and delivery requirement
38. Paddy small basins are flooded during essentially 57. Trickle slow application of water either directly to
Irrigation the entire growing season Irrigation the land surface or into the root zone of the
crop
39. Permanent, fixed on risers from buried lines or lines
Solid set suspended above a crop or over trees 58. USGS conducts the National Water Use Information
sprinkler (NWUI) program
40. Price percentage change in quantity taken if price is 59. Water include water metering, leak detention and
Elasticity changed to 1% Conservation repair, rate structure, regulation on use, etc.
41. Public water withdrawn by public or private water 60. Water the use of water in a manner that prevent its
Supply supplier and delivered to users Consumption immediate reuse (evap., plant transpiration,
/ contamination or incorporation of finished
42. Reclaimed wastewater treatment plant effluent that has
Consumptive product)
Wastewater been diverted for beneficial use before it
use
reaches a natural water way
61. Water effective way of conserving water, compared
43. Requirement purchase at the same quantity no matter what
Pricing to the other measure mentioned above
the price
62. Water Use defined from hydrologic perspective as all
44. Return Flow water that reaches a surface or ground water
water flows that are result of human
source after release from the point of use
intervention within the hydrologic cycle
45. Reuse collects irrigation runoff water from a field
63. Withdrawal act of taking water from a source for storage
Irrigation and uses the water
or use
46. Self- water withdrawn from a surface or
64. Withdrawal water removed from the ground or diverted
supplied groundwater source by a user rather being
from a surface water source from offstream
Water obtained from a public supply
use
47. Southeast involves the construction of 22 dams, 19
65. Young (1996) states that "the price elasticity of demand for
Anatolian hydroelectric generation stations, and the
water measures the willingness of consumers
Project irrigation of 1.7 million hec. of land
to give up water use in the face of rising
(GAP)
prices, or conversely, the tendency to use
48. Spray spray water as a mist over the land surface more as price falls
Irrigation using small sprinkler-like devices
49. Sprinkler used closed pipes to distribute water
Irrigation
50. Subsurface applies water below the soil surface using
Irrigation point and line of source
51. Surface is the distribution of water across field by
Irrigation flowing over field surface
52. Surge-flow applies water to the head furrow for a time
Irrigation period, then stops until the flow has infiltrated
53. Sustainable defined as the use of water that supports the
water use ability of human society to endure and
flourish into the indefinite future without
undermining the integrity of hydrological
cycle
54. System minimum desired and minimum required flow
demand to be met