Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.

Coleridge's poem, a ballad, narrates the harrowing sea-voyage of an old mariner who at one point of his journey didn't  have any water to drink because of a cursE- Cursed or not, we know how important drinking water is in our lifE- We  know we cannot survive without it. In fact two-thirds of our body is made up of water. Not for nothing it is said that  the other name of water is lifE- Is there a crisis in our time with regard to access to clean drinking water? The United  Nations in a meeting on the eve of the new millennium identified the drinking water problem as one of the challenges  for the futurE- But do we need to worry about the problem as ours is a land of rivers and we have plenty of rainfall?  Besides, we have a sea in our backyard too. One of the sources of water in our country are the rivers. Rivers are everywhere in our life, literature, economy and  culturE- But are the rivers in good shape? Unfortunately, they are not. A few are already dead and several are going  through the pangs of death. The river Buriganga is an example of a dying river. A report published in the Daily Sun  describes what has happened to the river Buriganga and why. Its water is polluted and a perpetual stench fills the air  around it. But that is not what it was like beforE-