Symbiosis National Aptitude Test SNAP 2018 Paper

Look at the underlined part of the sentence below. The sentence is given three possible substitutes for the underlined part. If one of them is better than the underlined part, mark that as the answer. If none of the substitutions improve the sentence, mark no improvements your answer.
The winter was such severe that even water in the taps was frozen and this created a lot of inconvenience to everyone in the family