And where lack of water is a problem, countries like Australia, China, and Spain, have built desalination plants, which remove the salt from seawater to produce drinking water.

对于澳大利亚、中国、西班牙这些国家，缺水也是一个问题，他们建造了脱盐工厂。通过将水脱盐来获得饮用水。

And when we talk about abundant and cheap electricity, we're talking about eliminating poverty faster, powering access to water desalination, strengthening medical supply chains, so much more.

而当我们提及充足廉价电力，我们谈是更快地消除贫困、推动水化采用、增强医疗供应链、以及更多数不清好处。

The state's already planning more ocean desalination projects up and down the coast.

加州已计划在沿地区开展更多水化项。

Adaptation, including sea defences, desalination plants, drought-resistant crops, will cost a lot of money.

适应气候变化，包括防、水化、抗旱作物，将花费大量资金。

Seawater desalination is energy-intensive no matter how you slice it.

没错，水化 是一项能源密集型产业。

Officials say the government does not have the money to build desalination factories.

官员们表示，政府没有资金建设水化工厂。

All the new desalination plants, including Agadir, were meant to be powered by renewable energy.

所有水化厂，包括阿加迪尔，本来都是由可再生能源提供动力。

Saudi Arabia first turned to desalination more than 100 years ago.

100 多年前，沙特阿拉伯首次使用水化。

Unfortunately for California, there aren't any easy solutions to this big problem, whether it be mandatory cuts, water recycling programs, or greater and expensive investments into desalination technologies and plants along the salty California coast.

不幸是，对于加州来说，这个大问题没有任何简单解决方案，无论是强制性削减，水循环利用计划，还是对水化技术和加利福尼亚沿岸工厂进行更大且昂贵投资。

And the leader of this parish says, if this is the new normal, that means parts of Louisiana will need the same kind of desalination that they use in Israel and other desert communities.

这个教区领导说，如果这是常态，这就意味着路易斯安那州部分地区需要像以色列和其他沙漠地区一样水化。

Investment in new desalination factories would begin with the government guaranteeing to buy the water and re-sell it to its citizens and industries at a much lower price, said Ayman Soliman.

艾曼·索利曼说，对水化工厂投资将始于政府保证其会购买这些水，并以更低价格转售给公民和工业。

An onboard desalination system would remove the salt from the water, and then a giant freezing machine would form icebergs, 5 meters thick and 25 meters wide.

然后用舰载水化系统把盐从水中分离出来，然后用一个巨大冷冻机将其变成一座 5 米厚 25 米宽冰山。

The project includes serious, realistic planning on desalination, alternative energy and desert agriculture, I was told by Ali Shihabi, a member of the Neom advisory board.

Neom咨询委员会成员阿里·沙哈比告诉我，该项包括对水化、可替代能源和沙漠农业进行认真、现实规划。

Last month, the U.S. Virgin Islands warned of unusually high amounts of sargassum getting into the machinery at a desalination plant near St. Croix.

上个月，美国维尔京群岛警告说，圣克罗瓦附近一家水化厂机器中有异常大量马尾藻进入机器。

Military expeditions, rescuers in disaster zones, remote desalination plants and scientific-research bases might be willing to pay for such power from the sky.

军事远征，灾区救援人员，远程水化厂和各种科研基地都可能愿意为这种太空能源花付费用。

Israel has cut off the electricity supply to Gaza. The move has affected a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the territory.

以色列切断了对加沙电力供应。此举影响了为部分地区生产饮用水水化厂。

Ms Matthei reels off a list of sensible proposals: better collecting of rainfall, reuse of wastewater and more permits for desalination plants.

马赛女士列举了一系列合理建议：更好地收集雨水、重复利用废水和为水化厂颁发更多许可证。

Indeed, Israel is a leader in the design and distribution of water conservation, desalination, irrigation and re-use technologies, among others.

事实上，以色列在节水、脱盐、灌溉和再利用等技术设计和分配方面处于领先地位。

Solar panel, battery, power desalination unit.

你可以看到太阳能板、电池、脱盐装置。

Some desalination plants exist where feasible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs.

在可行地方，有一些化水工厂，但它们运营成本很高，而且可能需要不断维修。