They grappled with the problem of connecting the electricity and water supplies. The former proved simple compared with the latter.
他们设法解决供电和供水的连接问题。前者与后者相比证明很简单。
Experts say drip irrigation is an innovation whose importance is growing, as climate change and rising population strain water supplies in many parts of the world.
专家表示，随着气候变化和人口增长对世界上许多地区的水资源供应造成压力，滴灌这种创新做法显得越来越重要。
The people who hunted the sparse desert animals responded to drought by managing the wild resources they hunted and gathered, especially wild oxen, which had to have regular water supplies to survive.
稀有沙漠动物的捕猎者通过管理所他们捕猎和采集的野生资源来应对干旱，尤其是必须有稳定水供应才能生存的野牛。
A leakage of kerosene has polluted water supplies.
泄漏的煤油已污染了水源。
Today, rivers are controlled for many reasons, primarily to maintain reliable water supplies for daily, agricultural and industrial needs, for power generation, for navigation, and to prevent flooding.
今天，河流控制的原因有很多，主要是为了维持可靠的水资源供应，以满足日常生活、农业和工业、发电、航行的用水需要，并起到防洪作用。
Both humans and animals were constantly on the move, in search of food and reliable water supplies.
人类和野生动物都在不停地迁徙，以寻找食物和可靠的水源。
Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.
有些植物储存水分来使它们度过干旱；另一些则把根深深地扎入地下水源。
Local economies, domestic water supplies, and certain types of recreation all would be severely impacted by destruction of these dams.
当地的经济、生活用水供应和某些类型的娱乐活动都将受到这些大坝破坏的严重影响。
At the same time, both cattle and humans were more confined in their movements, staying much closer to permanent water supplies for long periods of time.
同时，牲畜和人类的行动范围都受到了更大的限制，在很长一段时间内都要待在离永久水源更近的地方。
Occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
粮食短缺和干旱的出现导致了一些地区的饥荒和灾难，而且工业和农业的副产品也污染了水源。
Yet occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
然而，粮食短缺和干旱的出现导致了一些地区的饥荒和灾难，而且工业和农业副产品也污染了水源。
higher threats of malnutrition from reduced food and water supplies;
食品和水供应减少，营养不良的威胁加大；
Following are recommendations for storing and purifying water supplies.
以下是储存和净化食水的一些建议。
Much of the Americas and northern Eurasia enjoy abundant water supplies.
美洲的绝大部分地区和欧亚大陆北部享有着大量的淡水供给。
In some areas use of pesticides for biofuel crops are disrupting clean water supplies.
在一些地区，用于生物能源种植物的杀虫剂甚至扰乱了洁净水的供给。
If the water is cut off, use emergency water supplies — in water heaters and melted ice cubes.
如果水源被切断，使用热水器里的水或融化的食用冰块水救急。
The indirect harm, through its impact on water supplies, crop yields and disease is hugely greater.
原因是，气候变化直接影像水的供应，粮食产量和疾病蔓延。
As more people eat more meat, rising demand by farmers will collide with contracting water supplies.
随着越来越多的人吃更多的肉，增加的需求将会和减少的供水起冲突。
By taking some time now to store emergency food and water supplies, you can provide for your entire family.
而其实你只需花一点时间去贮存应急食物和水，就能供你整个家庭的使用。
The report recommends investing more money in conserving land in buffer zones around public water supplies.
这份研究报告建议，把更多的资金投入到公共供水系统周围缓冲区域的土地保护上。
Saudi Arabia said in 2008 it would cut domestic wheat output by 12.5% a year to save its water supplies.
沙特阿拉伯表示，在2008年会削减12.5%的国内小麦产量以节约水的消耗。
Thanks to global warming, these glaciers are receding, threatening the long-term water supplies for the region.
正是因为全球气候变暖，这些冰川正在消退，已经威胁到该区域未来的水供应。
Summer precipitation has decreased and the increase in population has put pressure on the region's water supplies.
而夏季降水却减少了，人口也增加了，这对该区的供水也造成了压力。
Summer precipitation has decreased and the increase in population has put pressure on the region's water supplies.
而夏季降水却减少了，人口也增加了，这对该区的供水也造成了压力。
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