Indian Rivers and Waterways

This is the correct answer. The Gandak rises in the Nepal Himalayas between the Dhaulagiri and Mount Everest and enters the Ganga plain in Champaran district of Bihar and joins the Ganga at Sonpur near Patna.

The Son is a major right bank tributary of the Ganga. This is the correct answer choice.

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This is the correct answer. An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. The Narmada forms an estuary.

The Gandhi Sagar Dam is one of the four major dams built on the Chambal River in India.

The Aswan High Dam is a massive embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt.

The Chenab River is the longest river flowing through Himachal Pradesh by volume and length within the state.

The Bhakra Dam is a massive concrete gravity dam built on the Satluj River in the Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh.

A bridge was constructed over the Ravi river in 1894, which was a significant infrastructure development for the region at the time.

This is the correct answer as the Bhakra – Nangal project water is in the Sutluj-Beas river basin.

This is the correct answer as Narmada Bachao Andolan or Save Narmada Movement is against the Sardar Sarovar Dam being built across the Narmada river in Gujarat.

This is the correct answer as Mettur dam is on the river Kaveri.

This is the correct answer. In hilly and mountainous regions, people built diversion channels like the ‘guls’ or ‘kuls’ of the Western Himalayas for agriculture.

In the semi-arid and arid regions of Rajasthan, particularly in Bikaner, Phalodi and Barmer, almost all the houses traditionally had underground tanks or tankas for storing drinking water. The rainwater is called Palar pani in these areas and is considered the purest form of natural water, which is stored in the tankas.