She owns a washing machine, but it uses too much water.

她有一台洗衣机，但耗水量太大。

And water-loving cash crops like willow (whose twigs and branches are used in the area as building material) can be grown.

耗水量大的经济作物，如柳树（其枝叶可用作建筑材料）也可以在此地种植。

This works temporarily but requires a ton of water, sometimes more than is used on crops over an entire growing season.

这个做法暂时有效，但是需要大量的水，有时用水量甚至超过作物整个生长季的耗水量。

The development also features a 22,000-litre rainwater recycling system and ultra-high-efficiency fixtures, reducing the tower's water consumption by a remarkable 40%.

该开发项目还配备了 22,000 升雨水回和超高效装置，将塔的耗水量降低了 40%。

Kurnaz noted, " If you don't pay them enough money, the farmers, they will plant whatever is water-intensive and will make money for them."

“如果你不付给农场主们足够的钱，为了赚钱，他们会种植任何耗水量大的作物。”

The farmers are saying that the only reason they grow water-intensive crops is to maintain compliance with their state's use-it-or-lose-it water rights policies.

农民们表示，他们种植耗水量大的作物的唯一原因是遵守州里的“用或丢”水权政策。

It uses water that's too salty to drink and annually only uses as much water as would irrigate just 8 acres of alfalfa.

它使用的水质过咸，无法饮用，每年耗水量仅相当于灌溉8英亩苜蓿所需的水量。

Right, because data centers can use a lot of water, like hundreds of thousands to millions of gallons a day, as much as a city.

没错，数据中心每天耗水量巨大，可达数十万甚至上百万加仑，相当于一个城市用水量。

But a small part of the country contains lush pastures, arable land, capable of producing grain, fruits and vegetables, and even cotton, a notoriously water-intensive plant.

但这个国家的一小部分地区拥有肥沃的牧场和可耕地，能够生产谷物、水果、蔬菜，甚至包括棉花这种众所周知耗水量极大的植物。

But that is a real problem because corn is a water-intensive crop, and it can take hundreds of gallons of water to produce a single gallon of ethanol.

但这确实是个大问题， 因为玉米是一种耗水量大的作物，生产一加仑乙醇可能需要几百加仑的水。

And I think if you live in an urban area in the south east of England, then you might not want to plant something that's using a lot of water.

我认为，如果你住在英格兰东南部的城市地区，可能就不想种植那些耗水量大的植物。

There has been a lack of regulation and standards about knowing how much water these data centers are consuming because this is all quite new technology, but we are getting more transparency than ever before.

由于这都是相当新的技术，在了解这些数据中心的耗水量方面一直缺乏监管和标准，但目前信息的透明度正处于比以往任何时候都要高的程度。

So to make sure that they can always prove that they are putting their full extent of water rights to a beneficial use, they grow very water intensive crops like alfalfa and almonds.

为了确保他们能够始终证明自己在充分利用其所有的水权进行有益使用，他们种植了像苜蓿和杏仁这样的耗水量极大的作物。