English (Language & Literature) 10 Reading TYPE- II (Case-based Factual Passages to Test Analysis and interpretation) Read the following article on water scarcity. DAYS ZERO While the world's most dramatic urban crisis unfolds in Cape Town in South Africa, recent studies say at least 200 cities across the world are fast running out of water. An analysis by Down * To Earth' shows 10 of them are headed towards DAY ZERO - when the taps will run dry. This comes as a surprise because cities across the world have grown, thrived and expanded alongrich, perennial sources of water, be it lakes, rivers, springs or even seas. So, where did all the water go? Robert McDonald, lead scientist at the US-based environmental group Nature Conservancy' offers an explanation. "The main long-term driver of these shortages is the unprecedented urban growth occurring around the world," he says. Rightly so. The crisis at Cape Town has shown what unplanned urbanisation can do to water availability in the world's urban centres. Not only are our metropolises headed to a dry future, the scarcity will increase as people are migrating to urban areas at unprecedented rates. (3) About 54 per cent of the world, or 3.9 billion people, live in urban areas and they will grow between 60 and 92 per cent by the end of the century, says a study published recently in Nature. As a result, the urban water demand will increase by 80 per cent by 2050, it adds. It is worrying that climate change will alter the timing and distribution of water," it says. About 400 million urban dwellers currently face water shortage, states a 2014 study published in Global Environmental Change. This when the average global temperature has not even risen by 1.5°C above pre- industrialisation levels. What will happen when it rises by 2°C? A study, published in Earth System Dynamics in November 2017, has made projections for those scenarios. A 1.5°C rise in the average global temperature will expose 357 million urban dwellers to extreme droughts while the figure for a 2°C rise will be 696 million, it says. The number of city dwellers facing water shortage by 2050 could be much higher, about 1 billion, says the Nature study. Source: Down to Earth On the basis of your understanding of the above article, answer ANY TEN questions from the twelve given below by choosing the best option. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the first paragraph? (a) The city of Cape Town recently suffered a water related disaster. (6) 200 cities all over the world are heading towards 'zero days' according to a 'Down to Earth analysis. (c) That cities along the perennial sources of water run the risk of going dry is a surprise for most scientists. (d) Extraordinary expansion of urban area is the main cause of water scarcity in the long run. When the writer remarks 'rightly so' (last line of paragraph 1), he means to say that (a) the water shortage in Cape Town was really a 'most dramatic urban crisis'
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English (Language & Literature) 10 Reading TYPE- II (Case-based Factual Passages to Test Analysis and interpretation) Read the following article on water scarcity. DAYS ZERO While the world's most dramatic urban crisis unfolds in Cape Town in South Africa, recent studies say at least 200 cities across the world are fast running out of water. An analysis by Down * To Earth' shows 10 of them are headed towards DAY ZERO - when the taps will run dry. This comes as a surprise because cities across the world have grown, thrived and expanded alongrich, perennial sources of water, be it lakes, rivers, springs or even seas. So, where did all the water go? Robert McDonald, lead scientist at the US-based environmental group Nature Conservancy' offers an explanation. "The main long-term driver of these shortages is the unprecedented urban growth occurring around the world," he says. Rightly so. The crisis at Cape Town has shown what unplanned urbanisation can do to water availability in the world's urban centres. Not only are our metropolises headed to a dry future, the scarcity will increase as people are migrating to urban areas at unprecedented rates. (3) About 54 per cent of the world, or 3.9 billion people, live in urban areas and they will grow between 60 and 92 per cent by the end of the century, says a study published recently in Nature. As a result, the urban water demand will increase by 80 per cent by 2050, it adds. It is worrying that climate change will alter the timing and distribution of water," it says. About 400 million urban dwellers currently face water shortage, states a 2014 study published in Global Environmental Change. This when the average global temperature has not even risen by 1.5°C above pre- industrialisation levels. What will happen when it rises by 2°C? A study, published in Earth System Dynamics in November 2017, has made projections for those scenarios. A 1.5°C rise in the average global temperature will expose 357 million urban dwellers to extreme droughts while the figure for a 2°C rise will be 696 million, it says. The number of city dwellers facing water shortage by 2050 could be much higher, about 1 billion, says the Nature study. Source: Down to Earth On the basis of your understanding of the above article, answer ANY TEN questions from the twelve given below by choosing the best option. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the first paragraph? (a) The city of Cape Town recently suffered a water related disaster. (6) 200 cities all over the world are heading towards 'zero days' according to a 'Down to Earth analysis. (c) That cities along the perennial sources of water run the risk of going dry is a surprise for most scientists. (d) Extraordinary expansion of urban area is the main cause of water scarcity in the long run. When the writer remarks 'rightly so' (last line of paragraph 1), he means to say that (a) the water shortage in Cape Town was really a 'most dramatic urban crisis'
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which of the following statement is not true accordingly to the first paragraph