Civil Engineering > GATE 2022 SET-2 > Water Requirement
A pump with an efficiency of 80% is used to draw groundwater from a well for irrigating a flat field of area 108 hectares. The base period and delta for paddy crop on this field are 120 days and 144 cm, respectively. Water application efficiency in the field is 80%. The lowest level of water in the well is 10 m below the ground. The minimum required horse power (h.p.) of the pump is ___________. (round off to two decimal places)
(Consider 1 h.p.=746 W; unit weight of water =9810 N/m3)

Correct : 30.75

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