26june2019 paper1 Q42
0. In large parts of Eastern India, the ground water is contaminated by:
- Option : A
- Explanation : Ground water is an essential and vital component of our life support system. The ground water resources are being utilized for drinking, irrigation and industrial purposes. Arsenic is a naturally occurring element found in ground water. In India, seven states namely- West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh in the flood plain of the Ganga River;Assam and Manipur in the flood plain of the Brahmaputra and Imphal rivers and Rajnandgaon village in Chhattisgarh state have so far been reported affected by Arsenic contamination in groundwater above the permissible limit of 10 ug/L. People in these affected states have chronically been exposed to drinking Arsenic contaminated hand tube-wells water.
