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Water in which condition or state carry a maximum amount of sediment?

(a) Uniform State

(b) Vapor State

(c) Floods

(d) Ice

The question was posed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

Asked question is from Sediment Transport in portion Sediment Transport and Irrigation Channels Design of Irrigation Engineering

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Correct option is (c) Floods

The best I can explain: According to Einstein’s equation (qb/q≼qS^2/d^3/2), the sediment carrying capacity of the channel depends upon the discharge per unit width. Therefore, this gives that floods can carry more amount of sediment than any other state of water because the discharge per unit width of channel is maximum in case of floods. Most of the annual sediment load is done by floods.

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