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Question
Give two advantages and one disadvantages that tube wells have over surface wells.
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Solution
Advantages: Tube wells do not result in evaporation of water like suface wells. It irrigates large area (400 hectares).
Disadvantage: However tube wells are only possible in areas where the groundwater level is not too low power is needed to drain water.
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