WATER TREATMENT UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE FULL
SOLUTION
●● What type of water rights are acquired for the beneficial us of water
by following specific legal procedure?
Answer: Appropriative Water Rights
●● What type of rights are acquired by diverting water, to which other
parties may or may not have prior claims, and putting it to use for a
period of time specified by statute?
Answer: Prescriptive Water Rights
●● Water that drains from saturated or impermeable surfaces, into
stream channels and then into natural or artificial storage sites or into the
ocean in costal areas is called?
Answer: Direct Runoff
●● Generally, surface water is characterized by traits such as....
Answer: soft water, turbidity, suspended solids, some color, and
microbial contamination.
,●● Generally, ground water is characterized by traits such as...
Answer: Higher levels of dissolved gasses, lower levels of of color,
relatively high hardness, and freedom from microbial contamination.
●● The upper surface of the zone of saturation, if not confined by
impermeable material, is called the...
Answer: Water Table
●● physical characteristics relate to the sseensory qualities of water for
domestic use such as the water's
Answer: observed coor, turbiditu, temperature, taste, and odor.
●● Chemical differences between waters include
Answer: mineral content and the presence or absence f constituents such
as fluoride, sulfide, and aacids.
●● Biological character of water refers to the
Answer: presence of organisms, alive or dead, and their metabolic
products
●● In the operation of water treatment plants, three basic objectives are
controlling...
Answer: 1) production of a safe drinking water, 2) Production of an
aesthetically pleasing drinking water, 3) production of drinking water at
, a reasonable cost with respect to capital and also operation and
maintenance costs.
●● a water well is an...
Answer: excavation or structure created in the ground by digging,
driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground
aquifers.
●● one of the most used pumps that uses an impeller to spin the liquid
outward is know as a....
Answer: cintrufugal pump
●● this type of pump uses an impeller-diffuser to push water using a
Venturi throat to get velocity...
Answer: Jet Pump
●● Reciprocating Pump
Answer: uses a piston or diaphragm to move liquid and is also used for
injecting chemicals into our water.
●● Rotary Pumps
Answer: uses a rotating mechanism to move liquid also used for
injecting chemicals into our water.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE FULL
SOLUTION
●● What type of water rights are acquired for the beneficial us of water
by following specific legal procedure?
Answer: Appropriative Water Rights
●● What type of rights are acquired by diverting water, to which other
parties may or may not have prior claims, and putting it to use for a
period of time specified by statute?
Answer: Prescriptive Water Rights
●● Water that drains from saturated or impermeable surfaces, into
stream channels and then into natural or artificial storage sites or into the
ocean in costal areas is called?
Answer: Direct Runoff
●● Generally, surface water is characterized by traits such as....
Answer: soft water, turbidity, suspended solids, some color, and
microbial contamination.
,●● Generally, ground water is characterized by traits such as...
Answer: Higher levels of dissolved gasses, lower levels of of color,
relatively high hardness, and freedom from microbial contamination.
●● The upper surface of the zone of saturation, if not confined by
impermeable material, is called the...
Answer: Water Table
●● physical characteristics relate to the sseensory qualities of water for
domestic use such as the water's
Answer: observed coor, turbiditu, temperature, taste, and odor.
●● Chemical differences between waters include
Answer: mineral content and the presence or absence f constituents such
as fluoride, sulfide, and aacids.
●● Biological character of water refers to the
Answer: presence of organisms, alive or dead, and their metabolic
products
●● In the operation of water treatment plants, three basic objectives are
controlling...
Answer: 1) production of a safe drinking water, 2) Production of an
aesthetically pleasing drinking water, 3) production of drinking water at
, a reasonable cost with respect to capital and also operation and
maintenance costs.
●● a water well is an...
Answer: excavation or structure created in the ground by digging,
driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground
aquifers.
●● one of the most used pumps that uses an impeller to spin the liquid
outward is know as a....
Answer: cintrufugal pump
●● this type of pump uses an impeller-diffuser to push water using a
Venturi throat to get velocity...
Answer: Jet Pump
●● Reciprocating Pump
Answer: uses a piston or diaphragm to move liquid and is also used for
injecting chemicals into our water.
●● Rotary Pumps
Answer: uses a rotating mechanism to move liquid also used for
injecting chemicals into our water.
