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प्रश्न
Talk to your grandmother or an elderly person. Find out, when they were of your age:
What kind of water arrangements were made for travellers - for example, piau, Mashak (leather bag), or any other? Now, what do people do about water when they travel?
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उत्तर
For travelers, there were arrangements of piau, mashak, etc. Now-a-days, people usually purchase packaged drinking water or carry their own water bottles.
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Look at the area around your school. Are there any fields, farms, pucca roads, drains, etc? Is the area sloping, rocky, or flat? Think, what will happen here when it rains? Where will the rain water go – into the drains, pipes, or pits? Is some water also getting soaked into the soil?
Is there a lake, well or stepwell near your house or school? Visit it and find out more about it.
Who all use the water?
Is there a lake, well or stepwell near your house or school? Visit it and find out more about it.
Is there any festival celebrated at this place?
Everyone has the right to live. Yet, is everybody getting enough water to live or even water to drink? Why is it that some people have to buy drinking water? Should it be like this? Water on this earth is for one and all. Some people draw out water from the ground by deep bore wells. How far is it correct? Have you ever seen this? Why do some people put a pump directly in the Jal Board pipeline? What problems would other people face due to this? Do you have any such experience?
In whose name is the bill? How much money do they have to pay for each month?
Do you have to pay for water? How much? Is the rate of water different in different colonies? Ask your elders.
Have you ever read this kind of news in any newspaper? How did people solve their problem of water? Did they repair and reuse any old lake or stepwell?
Bring a water bill, look at it and tell –
This bill is from ______ date to ______ date.
Let us see the different ways in which people manage water today. See the picture give below and discuss.
Do you get water in your house in any of these ways? Put a tick (✓) on that. If you get water in some other way, write in your notebook.
Bring a water bill, look at it and tell -
How much money is to be paid for this bill?
