In fact, water is always scarce in Botswana.

事实上，博一直是缺水的。

Hydrating on a stakeout is a double-edged sword anyway.

监视的时候缺水本来就是把双刃剑。

Aid workers say clean water is scarce in remote health clinics.

救援人员说，偏远地区的卫生诊所缺水严重。

Local peoples are affected by the lack of water.

当地人受缺水影响。

It pays for itself within one year.

这对于严重缺水的加州而言 是不可多得的解决方案。

When you are lacking water, your mouth becomes dry.

当你缺水时，你的嘴会变得干燥。

Groundwater has come to the rescue, and for a while it seemed a miraculous solution: drill a borehole, pump the stuff up from below and in due course it will be replaced.

地下水了救命水，一时间，有了它，缺水问题似乎有了一个奇迹般的解决方法：钻个洞，把水从地底下抽上来，到时候地下水自然又能得到补充。

The World Economic Forum (WEF), a nonprofit group based in Switzerland, says water scarcity continues to be a problem worldwide.

总部设在瑞士的非营利组织世界经济论坛(WEF)表示，缺水仍然是全球范围内的一个问题。

Gaza has a chronic water shortage leaving tap water undrinkable and forcing the Palestinians to pump huge amounts of untreated sewerage into the sea.

加沙长期缺水，导致自来水不能饮用，迫使巴勒斯坦人往大海中倾倒大量的未处理垃圾。

Across Venezuela there are still blackouts and also water shortages.

委内瑞拉国内目前仍有停电以及缺水现象。

So, I really do want to make a few changes in the way that we upgrade our house. D. VAN DAM: We know that water scarce cities, water scarce locations, it's not a problem that's just going to magically disappear.

因此，我真的想改变一下通过改造房子。D.范达姆: 我们知道缺水的城市，缺水的地方，这不是一个会神奇地消失的问题。

The lack of water, well, it's having a catastrophic impact on farms across the region.

缺水对整个地区的农场带来的毁灭性的打击。

But today, about a billion people are living in water scarce areas.

但如今，大约有10亿人生活在缺水地区。

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。通过将海水脱盐来获得饮用水。

And being poor comes with serious problems, from disease to lack of water.

贫穷会带来严重问题，从疾病到缺水比比皆是。

New crops are appearing, despite the lack of water.

尽管缺水，新作物仍在生长。

The blaze is now headed toward a dry forest area amid a water shortage and in a drought-ravaged area making the homes and land fuel for the fire.

大火现在正向一个干燥的森林地区进发，在缺水且干旱的地区，房屋和土地都会为大火的燃料。

And Venezuela is still running out of water.

委内瑞拉依然缺水。

Nuclear power accounts for about 11 percent of Texas' electricity and at least one nuclear unit shut down because it also needs water.

核能发电约占德州电力的11%，至少有一个核电站因为缺水而关闭。

The charity Water Aid has released a report ranking the country's worst hit by water shortages with Sudan, Nigeria and Pakistan, making up the top three.

一家名叫水援助组织的慈善组织发布了一份报告，对受缺水问题影响最大的国家进行了排名。其中，苏丹、尼日利亚和巴基斯坦是最严重的三个国家。