India's monsoon rains are the main source of irrigation water for the country's 235 million farmers.

印度的季风雨是全国两亿三千五百万农民的灌溉水主要来源。

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The artificial lake of golf course are not only the water landscape, but also an important source of irrigation water.

高尔夫球场人工湖水域既是球场的水景景观又是灌溉水的重要来源。

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The Jordan River is the chief source of the incoming water, but since the 1960s much of its water has been diverted for irrigation.

约旦河是进水的主要来源，但自从60年代，大部分的水已被改用于灌溉。

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The Ogallala aquifer is a major source of drinking and irrigation water for America's central plains.

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Of greatest concern initially, the Keystone XL pipeline was designed to run through Nebraska's Sandhills, which lie above the Ogallala Aquifer, the main source of drinking water and irrigation for millions of people.

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Purves is very concerned about the glaciers in the Himalayan mountains that are the main source of water for irrigation and drinking in China and India, well over 2 billion people.

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"Using these plants, we will be able to remove radioactive nuclides from the water and make it clean for irrigation purposes or even as a source of drinking water, " says Slavik Dushenkov of Phytotech.

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