Which of the following statements is correct?
Statement 01 : According to the Human Development Report 2016 of the United Nations Development Programme, 663 million people in developing countries have no access to safe water.
Statement 02 : Water bodies have suffered extensive depletion and pollution, severely restricting food production in the world.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option 3- Both the Statements are true
Given statements:
Statement 01 : According to the Human Development Report 2016 of the United Nations Development Programme, 663 million people in developing countries have no access to safe water.
Statement 02 : Water bodies have suffered extensive depletion and pollution, severely restricting food production in the world.
According to the Human Development Report 2016 of the United Nations Development Programme, 663 million people in developing countries have no access to safe water and 2.4 billion have no access to sanitation, resulting in the death of more than three million children every year.
Throughout the world, cultivable area is barely expanding any more, and a substantial portion of existing agricultural land is losing fertility. Grasslands have been overgrazed and fisheries over- harvested. Water bodies have suffered extensive depletion and pollution, severely restricting food production.