Water Infrastructure
This Idaho dam failure in 1976 inundated over 300 square miles and led to major reevaluations of earthfill dam design.
What is the Teton Dam?
In Interstellar (2014), this planet features kilometer-high tidal waves caused by its proximity to a black hole.
What is Miller’s Planet?
This principle states that the pressure of a fluid decreases as its velocity increases, often demonstrated using a venturi tube.
What is Bernoulli’s principle?
This legal doctrine grants water rights to the first person to divert water for beneficial use, common in arid Western U.S.
What is the Doctrine of Prior Appropriation?
The flow direction of this American river was reversed in 1900 to prevent environmental contamination due to industrial and human waste.
What is the Chicago River
In this film, Julia Roberts portray a legal assistant who uncovers groundwater contamination by PG&E in Hinkley, California involving hexavalent chromium.
What is "Erin Brockovich"?
In gradually varied open channel flow, this term represents the difference between the actual water surface and the energy grade line.
What is the velocity head?
This legal concept allows private property to be taken for public water infrastructure, with just compensation.
What is Eminent Domain?
This self-taught engineer designed the ill-fated St. Francis Dam -whose 1928 failure effectively ended his career.
Who is William Mulholland
In Chinatown (1974), the central plot revolves around the manipulation of this real water infrastructure project.
What is The Los Angeles Aqueduct.
The Moody diagram plots the Darcy friction factor against Reynolds number and this parameter, which accounts for pipe surface condition.
What is relative roughness?
Created in 1902 to develop irrigation projects for agriculture in the arid West, this federal agency transformed Western water management.
What is the Bureau of Reclamation?