Thames Water says bills will rise “for the foreseeable future”.
Thames Water表示，水价在可预见的未来将会上升。
Thames Water says bills will rise "for the foreseeable future".
泰晤士供水公司说账单对于不可预见的未来还是要增加的。
One day soon Thames Water may even be able to send out work crews before a main actually breaks.
不久前的一天，泰晤士水务公司甚至在一处供水主管线发生爆裂之前就及时派出了抢修队伍。
For Thames Water, a British utility that is now a part of Germany's RWE, the experience was much worse.
英国的泰晤士水务，其现在为德国莱茵集团的一部分，它的经历更糟。
Early last year Thames Water, which supplies London, tested the system on 3, 000km (2, 000 miles) of mains.
去年早些时候，伦敦泰晤士河运用探测系统测试了3000公里(2000英里)主管线。
Thames Water not only needs to know what is going on in its network, but to be able to act quickly on the information.
泰晤士水务公司不仅需要随时掌握供水管线的运行状况，也需要根据这些信息迅速采取行动的能力。
Even Thames Water, most of whose customers have no meters of any sort, is now planning to install some of the smart kind.
泰晤士水务公司的大部分用户以往没有安装过任何类型的水表，即便如此，该公司现在正计划给部分用户安装智能水表。
Two millimetres of rain in an hour can trigger a discharge; 39m tonnes of untreated sludge flushes into the river every year, says Thames Water, the utility firm that supplies London.
每小时两毫米的降雨都可能引发污水外泄。向伦敦供水的公用设施公司Thames Water表示，每年未经处理注入河水中的污泥达3900万吨。
Similarly, a magazine in England found that tap water from the Thames River tasted better than several leading brands of bottled water that were 400 times more expensive.
同样，英国的一家杂志发现，泰晤士河的自来水味道比几家顶尖品牌的瓶装水好，而后者的价格却是前者的400倍。
At the mouth of the Thames, it is threatened by the rush of water when there is flooding inland.
在泰晤士河的河口，内陆的河水倾泄而来。
Researchers working in the Black sea have found currents of water 350 times greater than the river Thames flowing along the sea bed, carving out channels much like a river on the land.
在黑海进行研究工作的科研人员发现了在海床上奔涌的水流，它们的流量是泰晤士河的350倍，如同陆地上的河流一样冲刷蚀刻出水道。
The flow - carrying highly salty water and sediment - is 350 times greater than the Thames, according to a Leeds University team who used a robotic submarine to scan the seabed near Turkey.
根据英国利兹大学的研究小组，利用机器人潜艇扫描土耳其附近海床之研究结果发现：其流量大于泰晤士河的350倍以上，并带有很高浓度的盐水与沉积物。
The Thames in those days was little more than an open sewer and the water in which I found myself was, let us say, far from healthy.
当时的泰晤士河不过是一个露天的下水道，我身边的水，我可以说，远不是有益健康的。
He was forgiven, however, when he wrote his famous water Music for one of the royal water parties on the River Thames in London.
然而，当他为在伦敦泰晤士河上举行的一次皇家水上招待会写出那首有名的《水上乐曲》后，他得到了宽恕。
More water flowed down through Lynmouth that night than normally flows down the Thames in 3 months.
那一晚经过林茅斯的洪水超过了泰晤士河平时3个月的流量。
More water flowed down through Lynmouth that night than normally flows down the Thames in 3 months.
那一晚经过林茅斯的洪水超过了泰晤士河平时3个月的流量。
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