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3. Answer the questions:
1. What dug wells are usually used for small domestic and farm supplies?
2. How deep could drilled wells be?
3. Why is it so necessary to have a distance between wells?
4. Name all kind of water sources.
5. Storage reservoirs are built high enough, aren’t they? Why?
6. What does the height of pumps depend on?
7. What do surface waters normally contain?
8. What stages does conventional water treatment processes include?
Give the annotation of the text.
Conversational Practice
1. Remember some of the words and expressions to read the
dialogue:
to handle – управлять
staff training – работа с персоналом
parts supplier – поставщик комплектующих изделий
an affiliate – компаньон
to tackle – энергично браться за дело
Quality Assurance – гарантийные обязательства
Accomplishments – достоинства
quality engineer – инженер по качеству
2. Read the dialogue “Water Supply Engineering in the World”:
A. I’d like to know if you ever thought of the role of water supply in our rapidly changing world.
B. In popular books and journals we often read that water
supply engineering is making greater strides.
A. And every year engineers are faced with more and more complex engineering problems: the quality of drinking water is awful in the world!
B. To tell the truth I am more puzzled with their complicated methods of purification.
A. Naturally they are constantly improving conventional water treatment processes that includes pretreatment, aeration,
rapid mix, coagulation and flocculation, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection.
B. In most cases such problems are called for by industrial or ecological needs.
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A. To my mind the role of new technologies in water supplying is great in our society.
B. Right you are. It is great.
3. Answer the questions:
1. Where do we read that science is making great strides?
2. What problems is water supply engineering faced with?
3. Are these problems called for industrial needs?
5. Is the role of an engineer great from this point of view?
Role-play the dialogue with your partner using the information from the text.
Tell about new methods and technologies in water supply engineering.
6. Be ready to discuss the topic: “Drinking water in Future”. Use set expressions and phrases given below:
a) I’d like to know.
b) To tell the truth.
c) Naturally.
d) That’s that.
UNIT VII. TRANSPORT ENGINEERING
AND COMMUNICATIONS
