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Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below.

Which one of the following types describes water as a resource?


Water is a cyclic resource, as it is present in different states and in abundant supplies on the globe.


Though water is an abiotic component of the environment, it is not described as one since water carries many biotic components in it which is often crucial for the sustenance of life on earth. Hence, option (A) is incorrect.


Water is, indeed a renewable resource. Hence, option (B) is incorrect.


Water is not a biotic component of the environment rather a physical resource, thus option (C) is incorrect.

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Which one of the following rivers has the highest replenishable ground water resource in the country?


 1 C

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Which of the following figures in cubic kilometres correctly shows the total annual precipitation in India?


 1 D

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Which one of the following south Indian states has the highest groundwater utilisation (in per cent) of its total ground water potential?


 1 E

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The highest proportion of the total water used in the country is in which


one of the following sectors?