The water resources of our country are very much underutilized. The main…

Concept

Passage-based statement questions are classified by how directly the passage's stated facts support or oppose the given statement: Definitely True (the passage states it outright or it is an exact paraphrase), Probably True (the passage's overall content makes it seem likely without stating it explicitly), Probably False (the passage's overall content makes it seem unlikely without an explicit contradiction), and Definitely False (the statement directly contradicts an explicit fact given in the passage).

Application

The passage explicitly states that a large portion of the country's water resources is wasted due to floods and unwise use of water. This is an explicit fact given in the passage, and it establishes floods as a cause of loss to water resources, not a contributor to them. The statement under evaluation says the opposite — that the occurrence of floods adds to the water resources. Because this statement is the direct opposite of an explicit fact already stated in the passage, no additional inference is needed to see the conflict.

Cross-check

The passage separately names a genuine addition to water resources — effective implementation of a rainwater harvesting system — which is unrelated to floods and is never grouped with resource-building actions in the passage. This independent read confirms the same conclusion.

• Probably True would apply if the passage only implied the statement without stating a fact that opposes it; here an opposing fact is stated explicitly, so probability language understates the conflict.

• Probably False would apply if the passage only suggested the opposite without an explicit contradicting fact; here the contradiction is explicit, so 'probably' understates it.

• Definitely True would apply if the statement matched or restated an explicit fact in the passage; here the statement is the reverse of what the passage explicitly states.

Result: the statement directly contradicts an explicit fact in the passage, so the correct classification is Definitely False.