The passage of water from the main canal to the outlet at the head of the watercourse may experience water loss either due to evaporation or due to seepage. Evaporation and seepage loss in certain situations account to be very ...
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Important Terms in Design of Irrigation Canal System
The design of irrigation canal system requires the knowledge of some of the important terminologies and definitions associated with the command area of irrigation, the irrigation intensity and the intensity of cropping. Each term is explained one by one briefly ...
What is Canal Irrigation? Features and Advantages
A canal is an artificial channel that is constructed to carry water to the fields to perform irrigation. The water is taken either from the river, tank or reservoirs. The canals can be constructed either by means of concrete, stone, ...
Methods of Measurement of Precipitation (Rainfall)
Precipitation is expressed in terms of the vertical depth to which water from it would stand on a level surface area if all the water from it were collected on this surface. The depth is to which water would accumulate ...
Engineering Hydrology – Features and Applications
Engineering hydrology is the science of water resource engineering which deals with the study of occurrence, distribution, movement and the properties of water on the earth or beneath the earth surface or in the atmosphere. The main scope of hydrology ...
Water Requirement of Crops – Delta and Duty of Water
The water requirement of the crop is defined as the total quantity and the mode of water required for a crop from the time it is sown to the time it is harvested. The water requirement varies from one crop ...
Techniques of Water Distribution in Irrigation Engineering
The irrigation water can be distributed efficiently to the farms in various ways like free flooding, check flooding, border flooding, basin flooding, furrow irrigation method, drip, and sprinkler irrigation method. The type of technique chosen for the irrigation land depends ...
What is Irrigation? What are the Types of Irrigation?
Irrigation is defined as the science of artificially providing water to the land in accordance with the “crop requirement” throughout the “crop period” for the complete nourishment of the plant. The main types of irrigation are briefly explained in this ...