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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
Here we Go ! Remembered Percep on
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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