Question

Groundwater is an example of a/an __________.

• A. non-renewable resource
• B. exhaustable resource
• C. renewable resource
• D. degradable resource

Answer 1

The correct option is C renewable resource

The resources which renew itself over time are termed renewable resources. After a heavy shower, most of the water percolated into the ground through pores on the surface and recharges the groundwater level. But the rate of recharging of groundwater is slower than the rate at which it is being used up. If proper measures are not taken to save groundwater, it might soon become a non-renewable resource.

So, technically groundwater is a renewable resource, but the process of recharging of groundwater is pretty slow.