Water Resources...

Post-independent India witnessed intensive industrialisation and urbanisation, creating vast ______________.

Where water is sufficiently available to meet the needs of the people, but, the area still suffers from water scarcity due to which of the following reasons?

A _____________is a barrier across flowing water that obstructs directs or retards the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment.

Freshwater is mainly obtained from surface ________and ________ .

Today, in India hydroelectric power contributes approximately ____ per cent of the total electricity produced.

The highest proportion of the total water used in the country is in which one of the following sectors?

True, the availability of water resources varies over space and time, mainly due to:

Nowadays, large industrial houses are as commonplace as the industrial units of many ­­­­­­­­­­­­­______________.

By which year nearly two billion people will live in absolute water scarcity?

 Nearly ______________ of the earth’s surface is covered with water.