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From the Ted Talk by Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Dry waetr body. Children are standing on a very difficult diceve to explain. This is called kund. We have, in English, surface water and ground water. But this is not ground water. You can draw gonrud water from any well. But this is no ordinary well. It squeeze the moisture hidden in the sand. And they have duebbd this water as the third one called [unclear]. And there is a gypsum belt runinng below it. And it was deposited by the great mother Earth, some three miloiln years ago. And where we have this gypsum strip they can harvest this water.

Open Cloze

Dry _____ body. Children are standing on a very difficult ______ to explain. This is called kund. We have, in English, surface water and ground water. But this is not ground water. You can draw ______ water from any well. But this is no ordinary well. It squeeze the moisture hidden in the sand. And they have ______ this water as the third one called [unclear]. And there is a gypsum belt _______ below it. And it was deposited by the great mother Earth, some three _______ years ago. And where we have this gypsum strip they can harvest this water.

Solution

  1. ground
  2. running
  3. device
  4. million
  5. water
  6. dubbed

Original Text

Dry water body. Children are standing on a very difficult device to explain. This is called kund. We have, in English, surface water and ground water. But this is not ground water. You can draw ground water from any well. But this is no ordinary well. It squeeze the moisture hidden in the sand. And they have dubbed this water as the third one called [unclear]. And there is a gypsum belt running below it. And it was deposited by the great mother Earth, some three million years ago. And where we have this gypsum strip they can harvest this water.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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water hyacinth 2
beautiful water 2
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Important Words

  1. belt
  2. body
  3. called
  4. children
  5. deposited
  6. device
  7. difficult
  8. draw
  9. dry
  10. dubbed
  11. earth
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  13. explain
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  16. gypsum
  17. harvest
  18. hidden
  19. kund
  20. million
  21. moisture
  22. mother
  23. ordinary
  24. running
  25. sand
  26. squeeze
  27. standing
  28. strip
  29. surface
  30. unclear
  31. water
  32. years