Making Every Drop Count IELTS Reading Answers and Explanations

Making Every Drop Count: practice guide and common mistakes

A water-use passage can contrast local improvements with wider demand. When selecting evidence, preserve the scale and time period stated. A rise in efficiency does not automatically prove a fall in total consumption. Identify whether the statement concerns an individual process, a sector or the whole region.

Try an original reading evidence exercise

This short exercise was written for this website. It is separate from the Cambridge questions and answer key above.

A factory uses less water for each product than before. It also makes twice as many products. The report does not give its total annual water use.

Write TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN for each statement.

1. The factory improved water efficiency per product.
2. Its production fell by half.
3. Its total annual water use decreased.

Mini-exercise answers

1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. NOT GIVEN

How to review your result

For each decision, underline the sentence that supports or contradicts the complete claim. The NOT GIVEN item contains an extra detail the short text does not establish. Do not use the topic’s real-world facts to fill that gap.

Original test questions

Use the question set for the named version when checking the Cambridge answers above. Open the matching questions and source reference. The mini-exercise on this page has its own separate key.

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Making Every Drop Count: checked answers and review tips

Cambridge IELTS 7, Reading Test 1, Passage 2. Questions 14–20 match headings; Questions 21–26 use YES, NO and NOT GIVEN.

14. xi
15. vii
16. v
17. i
18. ix
19. ii
20. x
21. NO
22. YES
23. NOT GIVEN
24. NO
25. YES
26. NOT GIVEN

Choose a heading for the central argument, not merely a water-related example. The passage distinguishes historical achievements, current problems and changes in consumption. A decrease in industrial water demand can contradict a claim that demand is increasing. For a statement about future ownership, check whether the writer actually expresses that opinion; an opinion sounding reasonable does not establish YES.