Question

READING
1. Read the passage and answer the following questions (Any 10):
10 Marks
1. The seasonal problem of water taps running dry is plaguing most of our major cities. With the bigger
rivers flowing 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 unfit 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 main tanks arc 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 diseases.
3. A comprehensive bill introduced in the Parliament recently, envisages the setting up of central and state
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 dwelling countries conducted a couple of years ago, 90 per cent 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 parasites find 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 kilogram of process hide, 30-40 litres of foul
smelling, waste water has to be disposed off. There are at least 900 licensed tanneries in the organised sector
Putrefied paper and jute waste, metallic waste from straw board and textile mills, sulphur, ammonia, urea,
metallic salts and corrosive acids 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 the urgency of
implementing them ruthlessly, if we are to avoid a national health disaster cutting across the barrier between
towns and the countryside.


(1) which problem is highlighted in the given passge ​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The seasonal problem of water taps running dry is plaguing most of our major cities. With the bigger

rivers flowing 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.

it is the problem is highlighted in the given passage

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Answer 2

Answer:

reduction of groundwater