A district administration is evaluating policy interventions to address acute groundwater depletion caused by unregulated commercial extraction in a rapidly expanding peri-urban industrial corridor. While local small-scale manufacturing units depend on private water tankers for daily operations, unmonitored pumping has severely lowered the surrounding water table, causing severe drinking water shortages for neighboring rural communities. Which of the following policy measures represents the most administratively feasible, balanced, and sustainable response?
- Establish a mandatory digital metering and licensing framework for commercial tankers paired with tiered extraction pricing, while developing public supply pipeline infrastructure over a phased 12-month period.Cevap
- BIssue an immediate blanket ban on all private water tanker operations and impound vehicles to force industrial units to halt operations until groundwater levels fully recover.
- CSubsidize private water extraction operations using national industrial growth funds, assuming overall macroeconomic expansion will offset localized water scarcity issues.
- DDeregulate private water tanker distribution entirely, assuming that free-market competition will naturally equalize water distribution and solve resource scarcity.
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The policy that establishes a mandatory digital metering and licensing framework alongside tiered extraction pricing and a phased public infrastructure rollout is the most administrative feasible and sustainable response.
The correct response implements a structured regulatory mechanism combining digital metering, licensing, and tiered pricing to deter over-extraction immediately, while establishing public pipeline infrastructure for a sustainable long-term solution. This maintains local economic activity while safeguarding community water rights.
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