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9. Natural Resources : Water

Lesson View

¨ Sources of Water ¨ Natural Sources

¨ Man-made Sources ¨ Water for Irrigation
¨ Drinking Water ¨ Indigenous Ways of Water

Conservation in India
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Match the words with their pictures.

Natural spring Man-made well aquifer stream

We all know that life is impossible without water. Crops and forests

cannot grow without it. We need water for drinking, washing,
irrigating fields, producing electricity. Almost three-fourths of the

Earth’s surface is covered with water.

Sources of Water

We obtain water from various
sources, including both natural and

man-made.

Natural Sources and Man-made

We get water from natural sources
such as rain, rivers, ponds and
lakes. Rain

Rain
The main source of water is rain, which falls heavily in the hilly

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