Pros+Cons of Surface water supplies
- Created by: Brad_ers_B
- Created on: 29-12-14 14:20
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- Surface water supply
- Advantages
- Easy to abstract with direct pumping
- Water can be treated after use and put back
- Dams/reservoirs used for HEP
- Reservoir = Recreation ect.
- Disadvantages
- Water will need treatment
- Seasonal: water volume varies with evaporation
- Construction of expensive dam and destructive to environment
- Requires flooding of land
- Silt up
- Constructing a dam could cause an Earthquake
- Requires sufficient rainfall and large river catchment
- Advantages
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