The loess plateau region is a typical water scarce area and the drought is the main factor that restricts the growth of the forest and grass.
黄土高原地区是典型的水资源贫乏区，干旱是制约林草生长的主要因素。
With floodwaters stretching clear across the gulf coast state of tabasco and food and drinking water scarce, health officials warned against cholera and other waterborne diseases.
随着洪水继续侵袭着塔巴斯哥海岸，造成了食物和饮用水的缺乏，健康部通知要预防霍乱和其他的水上疾病。
In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
在某些情况，水稀缺到农民们不得不打开污水管道，将污水输送到当地的河流。
SINCE men fight over land and oil and plenty of other things, it would be odd if they did not also fight over a commodity as precious and scarce as water.
既然人类能为了土地、石油以及其他很多东西而斗争，如果他们不同样地为了像水这样珍贵而稀缺的资源斗争，将是很奇怪的。
The success of the IIIMP pilot in Egypt shows what can be done when an irrigation system is re-engineered to treat water as a scarce, precious commodity and to involve farmers in management.
IIIMP试验的成功表明了当我们重新设计一种灌溉系统以便把水作为一种稀缺的、珍贵的商品来对待，并调动农民参与管理时，可以取得什么样的成就。
In the desert regions that the Bushmen have long inhabited - they are thought to be the oldest strain of humanity still existing - water is scarce and difficult to find in the dry season.
在布希曼人长久居住的沙漠地区——他们被认为是存在的最古老的人类——在干旱的季节，水是几乎没有的并很难找到。
In Kenya, fighting has broken out over scarce water and pastures.
在肯尼亚，人们为稀缺的水资源和牧场发生争斗。
Inadequate investments in supply and treatment infrastructure means that even where water is not scarce, it is rarely clean.
而缺少供水设施和污水处理设备意味着即使在不缺水的地方，也很难有干净的水。
This distortion tends to keep the retail price of water lower than it would otherwise be where water is scarce, encouraging consumption rather than conservation.
这种曲解只会有利于保持水的零售价格低于那些水源稀缺的地区的水的价格，这是鼓励消耗而非节约。
They stay put in areas where housing is substandard, safe water and sanitation are scarce, environments are filthy, and disease-carrying insects and animals are abundant.
它们滞留在住房条件差、安全用水和卫生设施稀缺、环境肮脏以及带病昆虫和动物大量繁衍的地方。
Clean water has become scarce and will become even scarcer with the onset of climate change.
清洁饮水已经成为稀缺资源，而且随着气候变化的到来将变得更加稀缺。
It has always been more about creating demand for real estate in places where water was scarce or non-existent.
而是为那些水资源匮乏或根本没水地区的房地产创造了需求。
Researchers studying rocks brought back by astronauts have found that the moon's scarce water has a different chemical signature than Earth water.
通过研究宇航员从月球上带回来的岩石标本，科学家们发现月球上稀少的水资源与地球水资源的化学成分并不相符。
Researchers studying rocks brought back by astronauts have found that the moon's scarce water has a different chemical signature than Earth water.
研究人员通过研究宇航员从月球上带回的岩石发现月球上那少得可怜的水其化学成分跟地球上的水不同的。
Most of the time the entries are amusing and sometimes they contain very pertinent information regarding the shelter and the surrounding area (problem bears, scarce water, etc.).
大部分时间期刊的内容还算有趣，有时候提供与山屋相关的内容，有时候则是介绍周遭区域议题(比分问题熊，供水缺乏或其他等等)。
And by 2025, some 3.5 billion people will live in places where water is scarce or becoming scarce, according to World water Council data.
根据世界水资源委员会提供的数据，到2025年，生活在缺水或面临缺水地区的人口将达到35亿左右。
It's a strategy aimed at avoiding and managing conflicts over the competition for the scarce land and water resources.
该项目可以说是旨在为避免和管理因稀有土地和水资源竞争而引发的冲突而制定的一项战略。
Over the next few months, though, the company hopes to install a pilot system at a dairy farm in Texas near the New Mexico border, where water is scarce.
在接下来的几个月中，公司希望在德克萨斯州靠近新墨西哥州边界的一个奶牛场建造一个试验系统，那个地方比较缺水。
Raising and lowering ships between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which differ by 85 feet in elevation, requires vast amounts of increasingly scarce fresh water.
由于大西洋和太平洋之间存在85英尺的海拔高度差，在两大洋中抬升和降低船只需要越来越多的大量稀缺淡水。
In many areas of the country, growing populations and limited nearby water supplies are making water a scarce (and expensive) commodity.
在这个国家的不同地区，人口增多与水供应不足使水变成稀缺昂贵的商品。
In the ensuing turmoil, local chiefs across the Peruvian highlands battled over scarce water and led raiders into neighboring villages in search of food.
然后纷乱继起，秘鲁高地的各位地方首领为争夺珍稀的水源兵戎相见，又带兵到临近的村庄搜掠食物。
It's a striking irony that to extract its plentiful uranium, Namibia must use quantities of a very scarce resource: water.
极其讽刺的是，为了提炼出存量丰富的铀矿，纳米比亚必须大量使用一种稀罕的资源——水。
Droughts can decrease the availability of potable water and can ruin crops, making food scarce.
干旱可能减少饮用水的供应，并可以毁掉庄稼，造成食物稀缺。
Yet in many farming regions, water is scarce and likely to get scarcer as global warming worsens.
然而，许多务农区水资源缺乏，并很有可能随着全球变暖的加剧更加缺乏。
The resulting health problems reduce rural output by 2%, it found, and the costs to industry and agriculture of dirty and scarce water SAP GDP by another percentage point.
它发现导致的健康问题使农村产出减少了2%，而由于污染和缺水导致的工业和农业上的损失吃掉了GDP的另一个百分点。
The resulting health problems reduce rural output by 2%, it found, and the costs to industry and agriculture of dirty and scarce water SAP GDP by another percentage point.
它发现导致的健康问题使农村产出减少了2%，而由于污染和缺水导致的工业和农业上的损失吃掉了GDP的另一个百分点。
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