Too Much Water Too Little Water

Download as docx, pdf, or txt
Download as docx, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 3

Page no.

147
1.How can unclean or dirty water harm our body?
Ans. Our body can get many diseases because of dirty water.

2. Have you ever got dirty or unclean water in your area? What was the reason
for
this?
Ans. Often, dirty water comes in the tap because of leakage in the pipeline.

3.Do you know anyone who has fallen sick because of such water? Talk about
this.
Ans. Yes, I know some of them. One of my friends had fallen sick because of dirty
and
unclean water.

4. When the guest came to Suguna’s house, they offered him a cold drink,
because i they thought he should not drink such water. What do you think
Suguna’s family
must be doing for their own drinking water?
Ans. Suguna’s family must be boiling and filtering the water to make it clean and
potable.

5. The guest said he did not take cold drinks. Why do you think he said this?
Ans. Cold drink may cause trouble in our body. Keeping this in mind the guest
refused to take cold drinks.

Page no 147
1. Have you ever faced a shortage of water in your house? When?
Ans. We always have to face shortage of water, whenever the water supply is
disrupted.

2. What did you do then?


Ans. We have to call private water tanker.
3. Have you ever played in water? Where and when?
Ans. Yes, I have played in water many times. “Whenever I went to my home at
village we played in the river water.

4. Are there times when you are not allowed to play in water? What are the
reasons for this?
Ans.
(a) In winter season. (b) In rainy season.
(c) When water is deep.(d) When water is dirty.
The restrictions are so that I don’t spoil my health and remain safe.

5. The water park had a lot of water to play in, but the nearby village did not
have water even to drink. Discuss.
Ans. Water parks are usually run by private authorities and run for making profit.
But in the village water is supplied by government. Because of poor
management government often fails to supply water properly.

Page 150
1. Why was Raziya worried when she read the newspaper?
Ans. Water got dirty and unclean because water from the gutter was mixed in
water pipe.

2. Raziya asked that all the water that was filled the previous day should be
thrown. Could this water have been used for something else? What kind of
things?
Ans. Yes that water could be used for washing clothes, vehicles and for watering
the plants.

3. In what way did she plan to clean the water?


Ans. She planned to boil water to make it clean.

4. Do you know of different ways to clean the water? Describe them.


Ans. Water can be cleaned by filtering and adding chlorine tablets or by adding
alum, by filtering and mixing chlorine tablets.
5. Suppose, Raziya had not read the news and everyone had drunk the water
without boiling it, what could have happened?
Ans. Had they drunk water without boiling then most of them could have fallen
sick.

You might also like