Water passes into the roots of a plant by osmosis.

水渗透至植物根部。

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The leaves on the plant had shrivelled up from lack of water.

因为缺水，植物的叶子已经枯萎了。

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On land, the supportive buoyancy of water is missing, the plant is no longer bathed in a nutrient solution, and air tends to dry things out.

在陆地上，水的浮力支持消失了，植物不再浸泡在营养液中，空气会使植物变干。

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However,each time a plant takes in one molecule of carbon dioxide gas, it loses hundreds of water molecules.

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For every two gallons of water the plant takes in, its reverse osmosis process will make one gallon of fresh water and send back to the ocean one gallon with twice the salinity level.

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This decreases the amount of water that the plant is forced to transpire and allows the plant to withstand dry conditions better.

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The Japanese government alarmed neighboring countries in April last year when it approved the discharge of 10, 000 tons of low-level radioactive water from the plant as Tepco ran out of space to store the water used to cool reactors.

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