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Read the following passage carefully:

Under the 2026 Urban Industrial Effluent and Water Reclamation Protocol, all tier-1 municipal corporations operating tertiary sewage treatment plants must achieve a minimum 85% water recovery rate for industrial cooling applications. The protocol dictates that reclaimed water distributed to manufacturing clusters must maintain a Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) level below 500 mg/L. However, if a municipal corporation integrates membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology alongside reverse osmosis, it receives a 15% concession on capital expenditure subsidies from the central urban infrastructure fund. The protocol explicitly clarifies that while compliance with TDS thresholds is mandatory for securing operational licensing, receiving the capital expenditure concession is entirely contingent upon dual-technology integration and is independent of whether the facility exceeds the minimum recovery threshold.

Statement: A municipal corporation operating a tertiary sewage treatment plant that achieves a 90% water recovery rate using standard reverse osmosis alone is guaranteed to receive the 15% capital expenditure concession.

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The statement is False because high recovery rate alone does not satisfy the dual-technology prerequisite required for the subsidy concession.
The conclusion that the facility is guaranteed the concession is logically invalid. The passage specifies that the capital expenditure concession is strictly contingent upon dual-technology integration (MBR alongside reverse osmosis). Reaching a 90% recovery rate via single-technology reverse osmosis meets the operational recovery baseline but does not fulfill the mandatory technological criteria required for the concession.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the conditions governing the 15% capital expenditure concession in the passage.
The passage establishes that receiving the 15% concession is entirely contingent upon integrating membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology alongside reverse osmosis.
Determining the necessary condition for qualifying for the subsidy concession.
2
Evaluate the scenario presented in the statement against the identified condition.
The municipal corporation in the scenario achieves a 90% recovery rate but uses standard reverse osmosis alone, lacking the required MBR technology integration.
Checking if the premises in the statement satisfy all necessary logical criteria.
3
Deduce the logical validity of the claim.
Since dual-technology integration is a mandatory requirement for the concession, achieving a higher recovery rate alone without MBR technology does not guarantee the concession. Therefore, the statement is False.
Formulating the final conclusion based strictly on passage facts.

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Inference and Logical Deduction
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