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Social Science · 2025 · 3 marks
CBSE 2025 · Region 3 · Set 1 · Q26
How have industrialisation and urbanisation impacted water supply? Explain.
How have industrialisation and urbanisation impacted water supply ? Explain.
Marking-scheme solution
(i) It has created a huge pressure on our water resources.
(ii) Fragile water resources are being over-exploited.
(iii) Depletion of ground water resources.
(iv) Untreated release of affluents by industries have increased the toxicity in water.
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