Question

Read the following passage and answer these questions.
Clean water supplies are essential for good health and cleanliness in the home. Often the
only source of drinking water is polluted. More than 70 percent of rural households have no
safe drinking water. Their supplies have often carried some distance from a river, pond, or well,
or a community pump or tap. Carrying water takes time and energy. For these reasons,
water is often kept in the house for a long time and, of necessity, it is rationed carefully.
Several diseases are spread by polluted water, these include diarrhea,
cholera, and typhoid Families using water from uncovered ponds or wells are likely to suffer
more frequently from all these infections than those whose water comes from protected
sites. An adequate supply of water is also needed for personal cleanliness and general
hygiene in the home. Health workers should encourage the provision of good household
water supplies as much as possible.
If there is no tap, the main water container must be kept clean, covered, and
free from debris. Overnight storage in earthenware vessels reduces the number of bacteria
in the water. Nevertheless, it is important that any water given to infants is first boiled. After
boiling it should be covered in the same container until it is cool enough to drink.
1. Why are villagers lacking in good health and cleanliness generally?
2. Why is water kept for a long time in the rural households?
3. What is polluted water? What are its effects?
4. What type of water should be given to infants? Why?
5. Give the synonym of the word’ adequate’.
6. Give the antonym of the word’ frequently’.

Answer 1

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Answers to the questions based on the passage

• 1. The villagers lacked health and cleanliness due to the scarcity of drinking water.
• The available water was all polluted and this lead to the spread of infectious diseases.
• 2. The sources of water where very distant from the village and it required lot of time and effort to take water home.
• So they used to keep water in the house for longer time.
• 3. Water in which the amount of undesirable contents are above the permissible limits are called polluted water.
• Polluted water can lead to infections and spread of waterborne diseases.
• 4. Only boiled water should be given to infants.
• On boiling bacteria's in the water gets destroyed.
• 5. Sufficient is a synonym of adequate.
• 6. The word rarely is the antonym of frequently.
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