*The drainage area of the Colorado River is about 653,000 km² and its average annual discharge is about 15 million acre-feet (1.85 × 1010 m³) (Manning, 1992). The average precipitation rate in the basin is about 12 inches/year (30.5 cm/yr). Calculate the river discharge divided by the drainage basin area in inches/year (cm/yr). What fraction of the annual precipitation rate is this? What fates, other than ending up in the Colorado River, can precipitated water have in this basin?
Reservoir and Streamflow Routing
In hydrology, a reservoir is usually a natural pond that is enlarged or made using a dam to keep the water clean. Reservoirs or dams can be constructed in several ways, including controlling the existing watercourse, disrupting the watercourse to form embayment within it, by digging or building any number of retaining walls.
Water Resource Systems Analysis
Water resources are natural water sources that may be as useful as water sources. 97% of the world's water is saltwater and only 3% is pure water; just over two-thirds of this ice sheet is located in glaciers. The remaining pure frozen water is found primarily as groundwater, with only a small fraction present above the ground or in the air. Natural sources of freshwater include surface water, under river flow, groundwater, and ice water. Artificial water sources can include treated wastewater (recycled water) and saline seawater.
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