The discovery could help farmers meet a growing demand for food as water supplies decrease.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

Another is that we learned a lot of things about engineering of public systems, like water supplies.

另一个原因是,我们懂得了有关公共系统知识,比如供水系统

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

If you're expecting to be attacked and besieged, as all these citadels would be by an invader, you would want more than anything else a water supply, but they didn't necessarily have good water supplies in such circumstances.

如果你预料到会被攻击和包围,就像这些城邦面对侵略者那样,你最关心的一定是水源供应,但在这样的情况下,他们未必能找到充足的水源

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

And that starts with a good map to mark fences, water supplies and grazing areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

They also help prevent soil loss and protect water supplies.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Undigested phosphorus in their waste can pollute water supplies.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

For example,it is often added to drinking water supplies.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Mercy Corps says they cannot expand their program because of inadequate water supplies.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And he knows no landfill liner system is completely leak-proof, meaning there is some possibility that the industrial quantities of waste coming from the oil cleanup could pollute local underground water supplies.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

"Coping with these kind of impacts if you're dealing with significant affects on your agriculture or your water supplies, your infrastructure and also trying to develop new kinds of energy approaches, for example--that's going to take long term investment,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

It's crazy,so it's not good. So far we've been collecting food, water,medical supplies,clothing."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

It also calls for improving supplies of clean water in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

These supplies include food, medicine,clean water, and extra power supplies.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Mr.Ban said the needs in Haiti are huge and immediate above all medical supplies, food,water,tents,shovels and heavy equipment.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

He The U.S.troops are also working with Haitian authorities to re-establish normal production and distribution of water, fuel and other key supplies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

He says the agencies are supplying water, distributing farming supplies, setting up cooperatives and implementing food-for-work projects.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

A spokesman says relief workers hope to improve the process of water distribution, and that they desperately need more food,tents, and medical supplies.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Blank says World Vision regularly provides earthquake assistance and usually has supplies positioned throughout the country, such as blankets,food, water and medicine, for just such emergencies.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

But food and water are scarce after armed looters raided stores of supplies.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

Jakarta's water problems start with poor infrastructure that allows human waste and rubbish to contaminate supplies that travel roughly 80 kilometers from the hills where Jakarta's main reservoir is located.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04