QUIZ – 2017: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 23 March 2018

Solution: a.

In the news: “As World Water Day draws closer (March 22), this year’s World Water Development Report makes it clear that nature-based solutions — which are also aligned with the principles and aims of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — can offer answers to our most pressing water-related challenges.”

The WWDR is an annual and thematic report that focuses on different strategic water issues each year and aims to provide decision-makers with the tools to implement sustainable use of our water resources.

• WWDR 2018 – Nature-Based Solutions for Water
• WWDR 2017 – Wastewater the Untapped Resource
• WWDR 2016 – Water and Jobs
• WWDR 2015 – Water for a Sustainable World
• WWDR 2014 – Water and Energy

http://www.unwater.org/publication_categories/world-water-development-report/

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Solution: a.

The High Level Panel on Water, consisting of 11 Heads of State and a Special Advisor (India was not represented on the panel) was convened in January 2016 by the United Nations Secretary-General and the World Bank Group President.

Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/making-every-drop-count/article23311134.ece

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Solution: b.

Note: Do NOT confuse the word ‘reserves’ with ‘production’. A country ‘X’ may be largest producer of a mineral in any given year but it need not have the largest reserves of that mineral.

China holds the second-largest reserves of the mineral, with Chile standing on the top of the tree.

Statement 2 is correct.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/the-fortune-hunters-of-qinghai/article22334344.ece

Source/Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/securing-lithium-reserves-need-of-the-hour/article23314717.ece;

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Solution: d.

The Government has proposed Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY) aimed at sustainable ground water management with community participation in select over-exploited and ground water stressed areas in seven States:

• Karnataka,
• Maharashtra,
• Madhya Pradesh,
• Gujarat,
• Rajasthan,
• Haryana and
• Uttar Pradesh.

ABHY is designed as a Central Sector Scheme with a total outlay of Rs. 6,000 Crore and is proposed to be implemented with World Bank assistance.

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=177514;

Source/Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/making-every-drop-count/article23311134.ece;

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Solution: d.

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html;

Source/Improvisation: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/making-every-drop-count/article23311134.ece