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[120]. Passage:

Water harvesting in dry regions teaches a lesson modern engineering often forgets: store water where it falls. A rooftop tank, a farm pond and a recharged well do not need a distant dam to help a household through a dry month. Communities that map their own drains, clear their tanks before rain and share stored water by agreed rules survive droughts better than those waiting for tankers. Conservation here is not sacrifice alone; it is design — small, local and maintained by those who use it. In the passage on water harvesting, the word 'design' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
design and maintenance
4.
A place name
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 3 : design and maintenance

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सही उत्तर design and maintenance है।

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In context, 'design' conveys design and maintenance.

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[120]. Passage:

Water harvesting in dry regions teaches a lesson modern engineering often forgets: store water where it falls. A rooftop tank, a farm pond and a recharged well do not need a distant dam to help a household through a dry month. Communities that map their own drains, clear their tanks before rain and share stored water by agreed rules survive droughts better than those waiting for tankers. Conservation here is not sacrifice alone; it is design — small, local and maintained by those who use it. In the passage on water harvesting, the word 'design' is used most nearly to mean

1.
The opposite of the passage's sense
2.
A purely technical term
3.
design and maintenance
4.
A place name

Correct Answer: design and maintenance

In context, 'design' conveys design and maintenance.

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