Question

1. The seasonal problem of water taps running dry is plaguing most of our major cities. With the bigger rivers owing in trickles and ponds and wells reduced to clay-pits, village women in remote areas have to fetch every drop of water for drinking, cooking, washing and so on, across large distances. This has only worsened a perennial problem, that of widespread pollution of water, rendering it for human consumption. The monsoons—and the attendant floods will not solve this problem.

2. The Delhi Administration is seriously worried about the threat to civic health posed by the polluted waters of the Yamuna. Two new tanks are to be set up to treat sewage. At present only 60 per cent of the 200 million gallons of the city’s sewage receives any kind of treatment before it is dumped into the river which supplies water not only to this city but to innumerable towns and villages downstream. The Ganga, the Yamuna, the Kaveri, in fact all our important rivers, serving many urban conglomerations are fast becoming a major source of disease.

3. A comprehensive bill, introduced in Parliament envisages the setting up of Central and State recently, boards for the prevention and control of water pollution. But it will obviously take some time before legislation is passed and effectively implemented. Meanwhile the problem continues to swell. According to a survey of eight developing countries conducted a couple of years ago, 90 percent of all child deaths were due to water-borne diseases. It is the same unchanged story today.

4. In a country like India, a burgeoning population continuing to use the open countryside as a lavatory means that, with every dust storm and rain, human excreta laden with germs and
parasite spores and their way to ponds, shallow wells and even the streams and rivers. Only 18 per cent of the rural folk have access to potable water.

5. A new threat that has already assumed alarming proportions is from industrial waste which is generally dumped untreated into the nearest river for instance for every program of process hide 30 to 40 litres of foul smelling waste water has to be disposed of there are at least 900 licence tanneries in the organised sector 55 paper and jute waste metallic waste from straw board and textile mill sulphur ammonia urea metallic sort and corrosive acid all find their way to the rivers of India.

6. It is important not only to make new laws to ensure the purity of water but also to realise urgency of implementing them recklessly if we are to avoid the national health disaster cutting across the barrier between towns and the countryside.Which problem is highlighted in the given passage?Which problem is highlighted in the given passage?
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Question No. 1 & Serial Number 6
Reduction of groundwater
Droughts
Water pollution
All of the above​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Answer 2

The problem highlighted in the passage is 'water pollution.'

• In this exercise, a comprehension has been provided on the terrible effects of water pollution. We need to comprehend the facts and answer the question.

• The comprehension talks about the troubles and problems that people have to go through due to the reduction in clear, usable water.

• It also states the means through which waste is spread in water by the industries and humans and how that leads to corrosion of the environment as well as our health.