Water Supply Business
Water World
Reservoir Matters
Nerds Only
Groundwater
Water Quality
100
This a key service of the Water Supply Business Class.
What is: (one of the following)
100
World's largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
This is the largest reservoir in the U.S.
What is Lake Mead?
100
Common equation used to calculate open channel flow.
What is the Manning's equation?
100
Largest groundwater aquifer in the United States.
What is the Ogallala aquifer?
100
Cause of algal blooms.
What is excess nitrogen and phosphorus in runoff?
200
These two people are the Water Supply Planning Practice Group chairs.
Who are Jeffery Weaver and Zach Stein?
200
Percentage of Earth's surface is covered by water.
What is 71%?
200
A fish says this when he hits the wall.
What is dam?
200
Common software used to model groundwater flow.
What is MODFLOW?
200
State that typically has the most irrigated land among all the U.S. States.
What is Nebraska?
200
Type of water pollution that comes from many diffuse sources such as land runoff, precipitation, atmospheric deposition, drainage, seepage or hydrologic modification.
What is non-point source pollution?
300
What groundwater services does HDR provide?
300
Percentage of Earth's water contained in oceans.
What is 97%
300
Two popular software applications for reservoir operations modeling.
What are HEC-ResSim and RiverWare?
300
Acre-ft to cubic feet conversion.
What is 43560 ft3/acre-ft?
300
These who people are the Groundwater Practice Group leaders.
Who are Amber Richie and Kristi Shaw?
300
These who people are the Water Quality Practice Group leaders.
Who are Robbin Miller and Andy Thuman.
400
These five practices make up the Water Supply Management Business Class.
What are Surface Supply, Groundwater, Water Quality, Irrigation, Atmospheric Science?
400
This is the most abundant source of freshwater available to humans.
What is groundwater?
400
U.S. river basin with the most reservoir storage capacity.
What is the Colorado River basin?
400
Unit used to represent various Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
What is Carbon Dioxide Equivalent?
400
Groundwater priority law used in states such as Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska.
What is "First in time, first in right" or Prior Appropriation Doctrine?
400
Area adjacent to stream, lake, or wetland that consists of trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants to filter nutrient runoff and provide bank stabilization.
What is a riparian buffer?
500
These four Market Sectors support the Water Supply Management Business Class.
What are Water Resource Management, Water Treatment, Wastewater, Federal?
500
Percentage of world's farmland that is irrigated.
What is 40%?
500
This is the tallest dam in the U.S.
What is the Oroville Dam?
500
Equation that governs the flow of groundwater in aquifers and wells.
What is Darcy's Law.
500
Process to replenish groundwater stored in aquifers.
What is aquifer recharge (AR) and aquifer storage and recovery (ASR)?
500
Maximum contaminant level for PFOAs in drinking water.
What is 4.0 parts per trillion?
