WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING SALTS FROM THE CROP ROOT ZONE.
MEMBERS: TAYAG, JENIZA ALLEN LIVESTOCK WATER USE INCLUDES WATER FOR FLORES, GERALDINE STOCK ANIMALS, FEED LOTS, DAIRIES, FISH DORADO, STEPHANY FARMS, AND OTHER NONFARM NEEDS. RAMOS, KIM ADRIAN LOGROSA, JELOU MINING WATER USE INCLUDES WATER FOR THE BURCE, PAOLO BRUCE EXTRACTION OF NATURALLY OCCURRING YOHJILLE DESSA MINERALS; SOLIDS, SUCH AS COAL AND ORES; LIQUIDS, SUCH AS CRUDE PETROLEUM; AND USES OF WATER GASES, SUCH AS NATURAL GAS. CATEGORIES OF WATER USE PUBLIC SUPPLY WATER USE REFERS TO WATER COMMERCIAL WATER USE INCLUDES FRESH WITHDRAWN BY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WATER WATER FOR MOTELS, HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, SUPPLIERS, SUCH AS COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL OFFICE BUILDINGS, OTHER COMMERCIAL WATER WORKS, AND DELIVERED TO USERS FOR FACILITIES, AND CIVILIAN AND MILITARY DOMESTIC, COMMERCIAL, AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS. DOMESTIC WATER USE IS PURPOSES PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT DAILY USE OF WATER FOR MOST PEOPLE. THERMOELECTRIC POWER WATER USE IS THE AMOUNT OF WATER USED IN THE PRODUCTION DOMESTIC USE INCLUDES WATER THAT IS USED OF ELECTRIC POWER GENERATED WITH HEAT. IN THE HOME EVERY DAY, INCLUDING WATER FOR NORMAL HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES, SUCH AS WATER SUPPLY DRINKING, FOOD PREPARATION, BATHING, PROCESS OF PROVIDING WATER WASHING CLOTHES AND DISHES, FLUSHING THE PHILIPPINES’ WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM TOILETS, AND WATERING LAWNS AND DATES BACK TO 1946 AFTER THE COUNTRY GARDENS. ACHIEVED ITS INDEPENDENCE. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, LOCAL INDUSTRIAL WATER USE IS A VALUABLE INSTITUTIONS, NON-GOVERNMENT RESOURCE TO THE NATION'S INDUSTRIES FOR ORGANIZATIONS, AND OTHER SUCH PURPOSES AS PROCESSING, CLEANING, CORPORATIONS ARE PRIMARILY IN CHARGE TRANSPORTATION, DILUTION, AND COOLING IN IN THE OPERATION AND ADMINISTRATION MANUFACTURING FACILITIES. OF WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION IN THE COUNTRY. IRRIGATION WATER USE IS WATER ARTIFICIALLY APPLIED TO FARM, ORCHARD, METRO MANILA WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM PASTURE, AND HORTICULTURAL CROPS, AS MAIN SOURCES ARE: WELL AS WATER USED TO IRRIGATE PASTURES, ANGAT DAM - BULACAN FOR FROST AND FREEZE PROTECTION, IPO DAM - BULACAN CHEMICAL APPLICATION, CROP COOLING, LA MESA DAM - QUEZON CITY WATER USE CLASSIFICATION
SUSTAINABLE WATER USE
SUSTAINABLE WATER USE IS BY MANAGING
AVAILABLE RESOURCES TO MEET NEEDS OF PRESENT WHILE PRESERVING ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AND MAINTAINING THIS VITAL RESOURCE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
APPLY THE CONCEPT: THE SYSTEMS VIEW
LONG DURATION
PUBLIC POLICIES THAT ARE INTENDED TO BE
PERMANENT ARE AIMED AT THE IDEA OF LONG DURATION. OVER MANY YEARS, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE METHODICALLY INTERVENED IN THE NATURAL HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN STATES, TO MOVE WATER FROM ITS ORIGIN TO WHERE WE WANT IT TO BE. AS TIME HAS PROGRESSED, WE HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THIS POLICY BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT; ADVERSE IMPACTS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED, AND NOW WE ARE RETHINKING THE WHOLE POLICY. BUT, BY NOW THERE ARE MAJOR POPULATION AND ECONOMIC CENTERS IN AREAS THAT COULD NEVER SUSTAIN THEM WITHOUT ENGINEERING INTERVENTION. REASONABLE USE RATE KEY GOALS ARE TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE SUCCESSFUL WATER CONSERVATION IT WOULD SEEM OBVIOUS THAT A NATURAL PROGRAM, DEVELOP NEW STRATEGIES TO RESOURCE LIKE WATER CANNOT BE USED MAXIMIZE USE OF SURFACE RUNOFF AND INDEFINITELY AT A GREATER RATE THAN IT CAN PRESERVE TREATED DOMESTIC WATER FOR BE RENEWED, WHICH USUALLY OCCURS VIA CRITICAL USES, AND PROTECT WATER- NATURAL PROCESSES. GROUND WATER DEPENDENT HABITAT. DEPLETION HAS BEEN, AND IN SOME CASES CONTINUES TO BE, A MAJOR PROBLEM. THE WATER CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES IDEA OF “WATER MINING” REGARDS WATER AS PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1067 A RESOURCE TO BE USED UNTIL EXHAUSTED, AND IGNORES RENEWAL ENTIRELY. IN MANY A DECREE INSTITUTING A WATER CODE, CASES DEEP WATER AQUIFERS OF VARIOUS CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF WATER KINDS CONTAIN WATER THAT TAKES RESOURCES THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO REACH THE AQUIFER, SO THAT THE RENEWAL RATE IS LESS THAN THE CHAPTER 1 PUMPING RATE BY MANY ORDERS OF DECLARATION OF OBJECTIVES AND PRINCIPLES MAGNITUDE. THIS CODE SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE WATER MODERATE SOLUTIONS CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS CODE ARE: MODERATE PUBLIC POLICIES ARE THOSE WHICH TEND TO AVOID EXTREME SOLUTIONS • TO ESTABLISH THE BASIC PRINCIPLES AND TO PROBLEMS ABOUT WATER RESOURCES. FRAMEWORK RELATING TO THE LIBERAL APPLICATION OF WATER, FERTILIZERS, APPROPRIATION, CONTROL AND AND PESTICIDES TO AGRICULTURAL REGIONS CONSERVATION OF WATER RESOURCES TO HAS LED TO RUNOFF, SOIL EROSION, AND ACHIEVE THE OPTIMUM DEVELOPMENT AND NONPOINT SOURCE CONTAMINATION. THE RATIONAL UTILIZATION OF THESE RESOURCES; EXTREME CASES TEND TO BE THOSE OF TOO • TO DEFINE THE EXTENT OF THE RIGHTS AND GREAT A CONCENTRATION OR DENSITY OF OBLIGATIONS OF WATER USERS AND OWNERS HUMAN ACTIVITY. IN THIS KIND OF DECISION INCLUDING THE PROTECTION AND REGULATION MAKING TRAP, EACH STEP SEEMS TO BE OF SUCH RIGHTS. RELATIVELY HARMLESS, YET OVER TIME ACCUMULATED DECISIONS LEAD TO SERIOUS CHAPTER 2 PROBLEMS. OWNERSHIP OF WATERS
FLEXIBILITY THE FOLLOWING BELONG TO THE STATE:
PERIODIC MONITORING AND DETERMINING • RIVERS AND THEIR NATURAL BEDS
HOW TO REVERSE THE POLICY BECOME • ATMOSPHERIC WATER IMPORTANT. WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO LEARN • SEAWATER LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE BUT STAY ON THE • NATURAL LAKES AND LAGOONS. PATH OF IMPROVING SUSTAINABILITY. THESE NOTIONS HAVE SELDOM BEEN PART OF PUBLIC THE FOLLOWING WATERS FOUND ON PRIVATE WATER POLICY, BUT WOULD GO FAR TO AVOID LANDS BELONG TO THE STATE: SOME OF THE PROBLEMS WE SEE TODAY. • RAIN WATER FALLING ON SUCH LANDS • WATER IN SWAMPS AND MARSHES TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS • LAKES AND LAGOONS NATURALLY OCCURING MAY DECLARE FLOOD CONTROL. ON SUCH LANDS. THE GOVERNMENT MAY CONSTRUCT NECESSARY FLOOD CONTROL STRUCTURE. CHAPTER 3 APPROPRIATION OF WATER THE OWNERS OF THE LAND THUS AFFECTED ARE NOT ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION FOR APPROPRIATION OF WATER, AS USED IN THIS ANY DAMAGE SUSTAINED THEREBY. CODE, IS THE ACQUISITION OF RIGHTS OVER THE USE OF WATERS TAKING OR DIVERTING OF WHOEVER OPERATES THE RESERVOIR SHALL WATERS FROM A NATURAL SOURCE IN THE RELEASE WATER FOR MINIMUM STREAM MANNER AND FOR ANY PURPOSE ALLOWED BY FLOW. LAW. WATER FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION WATER MAY BE APPROPRIATED FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES: HYDRO-POWER
• DOMESTIC FLOWING WATER CREATES ENERGY THAT CAN
• MUNICIPAL BE CAPTURED AND TURNED INTO ELECTRICITY. • RECREATIONAL THIS IS CALLED HYDROELECTRIC • FISHERIES POWER OR HYDROPOWER. • POWER GENERATION HYDROPOWER IS A VERSATILE, FLEXIBLE TECHNOLOGY THAT AT ITS SMALLEST CAN CHAPTER 4 POWER A SINGLE HOME, AND AT ITS LARGEST UTILIZATION OF WATER CAN SUPPLY INDUSTRY AND THE PUBLIC WITH RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY ON A NATIONAL AND FOR THIS PURPOSE THE COUNCIL SHALL EVEN REGIONAL SCALE. PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS AND DECLARE THE EXISTENCE OF CONTROL AREAS TYPES OF HYDRO-POWER AND ITS PROTECTION. RUN-OF-RIVER HYDROPOWER WHEN THE REUSE OF WASTE WATER ID STORAGE HYDROPOWER FEASIBLE, IT SHALL BE LIMITED AS MUCH AS PUMPED-STORAGE HYDROPOWER POSSIBLE, TO SUCH USES OTHER THAN DIRECT OFFSHORE HYDROPOWER HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
WATER CONTAINED IN OPEN CANALS OR
RESERVOIRS OF PRIVATE PERSONS MAY BE USED BY ANY PERSON DOR DOMESTIC PURPOSE OR FOR WATERING PLANTS .
CHAPTER 5 CONTROL OF WATERS
TO PROMOTE THE BEST INTEREST AND THE
COORDINATED PROTECTION OF FLOOD PLAIN LANDS, THE SECRETARY OF PUBLIC WORKS,