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• Hydraulic conductivity — Hydraulic conductivity, symbolically represented as K, is a property of vascular plants, soil or rock, that describes the ease with which water can move through pore spaces or fractures. It depends on the intrinsic permeability of the material… …   Wikipedia

• Hydraulic machinery — are machines and tools which use fluid power to do work. Heavy equipment is a common example.In this type of machine, high pressure hydraulic fluid is transmitted throughout the machine to various hydraulic motors and hydraulic cylinders. The… …   Wikipedia

• Hydraulic head — is a specific measurement of water pressure or total energy per unit weight above a geodetic datum. It is usually measured as a water surface elevation, expressed in units of length, but represents the energy at the entrance (or bottom) of a… …   Wikipedia

• Hydraulic engineering — is a sub discipline of civil engineering concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water. This area of engineering is intimately related to the design of bridges, dams, channels, canals, levees, elevators, and to both sanitary …   Wikipedia

• Hydraulic roughness — is the measure of the amount of frictional resistance water experiences when passing over land and channel features.[1] One roughness coefficient is Manning s n value.[2] An increase in this n value will cause a decrease in the velocity of water… …   Wikipedia

• Hydraulic jump — A hydraulic jump is a phenomenon in the science of hydraulics which is frequently observed in open channel flow such as rivers and spillways. When liquid at high velocity discharges into a zone of lower velocity, a rather abrupt rise (a step or… …   Wikipedia

• Hydraulic empire — A hydraulic empire, also known as a hydraulic despotism or water monopoly empire , is a social or government structure which maintains power and control through exclusive control over access to water. It arises through the need for flood control… …   Wikipedia

• channel characteristics —    Hydraulic properties of stream channel [16] …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• hydrologic sciences — Introduction       the fields of study concerned with the waters of the Earth. Included are the sciences of hydrology, oceanography, limnology, and glaciology.       In its widest sense hydrology encompasses the study of the occurrence, the… …   Universalium

• environmental works — ▪ civil engineering Introduction       infrastructure that provides cities and towns with water supply, waste disposal, and pollution control services. They include extensive networks of reservoirs, pipelines, treatment systems, pumping stations …   Universalium

• MetroWest Water Supply Tunnel — Official name MWWST Begins Marlborough Ends Weston Maintained by MWRA …   Wikipedia