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。

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Cities across China are raising the price of water, in moves that try to balance the need to conserve an increasingly scarce resource with the effects on a public used to low fees.

中国的一些城市正在提高水价，希望此举既能保护日益稀缺的水资源，又不会对习惯于低收费的公众造成过大影响。

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Water is a scarce natural resource, and also a valuable strategic resource.

水资源是一种稀缺的自然资源，也是一种宝贵的战略资源。

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This treatment and reuse approach has the additional benefit of requiring much less water in those areas where water is a scarce resource.

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He is giving a talk "Water as a Scarce Resource: A Threat to Growth Targets in the East of England" to a Royal Town Planning Institute conference in Cambridge on Wednesday.

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