ACRONYMS OF WATER DAMS?

Acronyms of TMC and CUSEC?

water dams,  a big source for irrigation and industrial applications to the any nation. And some times these are built as a precaution to divert the water flow in another path in order to stop the upcoming floods. And it attracts the people by its natural phenomena, that is the water discharged through its gates looks like a milky froth.

But have you think ever that how many litres of water can a dam hold? Or what exactly the unit to measure the storing capacity of a dam? 

Unit to measure the holding capacity of a dam?

Have you heard about the word TMC?. May be so many times. But what exactly it is?

What is TMC

TMC it's an acronym. Acronym of (Thousand

Million Cubic feet). It's the volume of dam. It can be used to measure the storing capacity of dam. But can a normal person understand it? That's based on individuals. TMC indicates the water which poured in a cube shaped pot. The cube height, breadth and length all are equal. If length is equals to one feet, then height and breadths also equals to one feet. Now this 1 cubic feet pot is multiplied by thousand (1000) and again it's multiplied by million (1000000). Now see the fully TMC(cubic feet pot * 1000 * 1000000).

     But can a non technical person understand the capacity of dam in tmcs. Or how many litres can 1tmc hold?. For that we've to convert cubic feet into cubic metre.

Let's start

Step 1: 

1feet = 0.3048 meters. 

Step 2: 

feet*feet*feet = 0.3048*0.3048*0.3048 cubic meter = 0.0283168466 cubic meter.

Step 3: 

0.3048*0.3048*0.3048 cubic meter multiplied by 1000 and again multiplied by 1000000

0.0283168466*1000*1000000 = 28316846.592 cubic meter. 

Step 4:

1 cubic meter volume can hold 1000 liters of water

Like as 28316846.592 cubic meter volume can hold 28316846.592*1000 = 28316846592 liters

So 1 TMC can hold 28316846592 liters of water.

 

CUSEC

And another one is CUSEC. it stands for CUbic feet per SECond. It's used to measure the discharge of water through gates of dam. like as earlier we've to convert cubic feet into cubic meter. 

Feet*feet*feet = 0.3048*0.3048*0.3048 = 0.028316846 cubic meter.

0.028316846*1000 = 28.316 liters/second