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प्रश्न
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?
उत्तर
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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