- Industry: Government
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A U.S. Department of the Interior agency that oversees water resource management incuding the oversight and operation of numerous diversion, delivery, and storage projects the agency has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power ...
The average amount of water used per person during a standard time period, generally per day.
Industry:Engineering
Describes situations where potential outcomes cannot be estimated based on historical events.
Industry:Engineering
Frictional resistance mobilized between a wall and the soil or rock in contact with the wall.
Industry:Engineering
The transmission of electric energy sold, or to be sold, at wholesale in interstate commerce.
Industry:Engineering
A tank used to store a chemical solution of known concentration for feed to a chemical feeder.
Industry:Engineering
Property of a soil describing its susceptibility to decrease in volume when subjected to load.
Industry:Engineering
A gravity dam built up of boxes, cribs, crossed timbers or gabions, filled with earth or rock.
Industry:Engineering
Portion of surface water that infiltrates the streambed and moves through pores in subsurface.
Industry:Engineering
The National Interagency Fire Center is the nation's support center for wildland firefighting.
Industry:Engineering
A synthetic rubber with superior resistance to oils; often used as gasket and washer material.
Industry:Engineering
