{"id":811,"date":"2023-06-15T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T07:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=811"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:22:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:52:00","slug":"q-consider-the-following-statements-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-consider-the-following-statements-18","title":{"rendered":"Q. Consider the following statements :"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Statement-I<\/strong>&nbsp;: According to the United Nations \u2018World Water Development Report, 2022\u2019, India extracts more than a quarter of the world\u2019s groundwater withdrawal each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Statement-II&nbsp;<\/strong>: India needs to extract more than a&nbsp;<strong>quarter of the world\u2019s groundwater<\/strong>&nbsp;each year to satisfy the drinking water and sanitation needs of almost 18% of world\u2019s population living in its territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is the correct explanation for Statement-I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct and Statement-II is not the correct explanation for Statement-I<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statement-I is incorrect but Statement-II is correct<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (c) Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notes:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>According to the United Nations World Water Development Report 2022, with an estimated 251 km<sup>3<\/sup>&nbsp;annual withdrawal from an estimated 20 million wells and tube wells, India is the world\u2019s greatest groundwater user. This&nbsp;<strong>accounts for more than a quarter of the total groundwater extracted internationally.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>India uses about 89% of this groundwater for irrigation. Major share of total groundwater extracted by India is utilized for irrigation purposes and not for&nbsp;<strong>drinking and sanitation purposes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_2f1a5d-84 .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_2f1a5d-84 .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_2f1a5d-84\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement-I&nbsp;: According to the United Nations \u2018World Water Development Report, 2022\u2019, India extracts more than a quarter of the world\u2019s groundwater withdrawal each year. Statement-II&nbsp;: India needs to extract more than a&nbsp;quarter of the world\u2019s groundwater&nbsp;each year to satisfy the drinking water and sanitation needs of almost 18% of world\u2019s population living in its territory&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[36],"years":[50],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-environment","years-50"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":36,"label":"Environment"}],"years":[{"value":50,"label":"2023"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":36,"name":"Environment","slug":"environment","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":36,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":193,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}