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Question
Talk to your grandmother or any elderly person. Find out, when they were of your age:
From where did they get water for the house? Has there been a change now?
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Solution
They used to get water from wells, bavdis, ponds, rivers, and hand pumps. But now we get water supplied by Jal Board or from tube wells, hand pumps, etc.
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