The biggest problem is lack of irrigation.

最大的问题缺少灌溉。

A subterranean network of canals known as karez is used to channel water around Turpan streets and into raving yards.

这里有俗称坎儿井的地下水道系统，他们在土鲁番开凿水道引水灌溉葡萄园。

Most important of all, the Amazon irrigates the largest tropical rain forest on Earth.

最重要的，亚马逊河灌溉着地上最大的热。

We plan to set up a modern system of irrigation.

我们计划建立一个现代的灌溉系统。

Those kinds of crops help farmers survive. Irrigation can also help farms.

这种作物帮助农民们存活了下来，灌溉也能帮助农场。

The past 50 years of over-farming a lot of land has created real problems on the global basis in terms of having enough irrigable farmland.

过去50年过度耕种的土地在全范围内造成了真正的问题，因为有足够的灌溉农田。

Declining water tables will mean increased pumped irrigation.

地下水减少意味着抽水灌溉增加。

What we do is irrigate book deserts.

我们所做的就灌溉图书沙漠。

But people have diverted lots of that water for agriculture.

们把大量的水引走用于农业灌溉。

Irrigated by a special system that delivers the precise amount needed to each plant.

通过一个特殊的系统进行灌溉，为每株植物提供精确的灌溉量。

His fields of ice supply perfectly timed irrigation water.

他的冰地提供了非常及时的灌溉用水。

Because water just evaporates from overwatered lawns. But how much?

因为水分会从过度灌溉的草坪上蒸发掉。到底会蒸发掉多少呢?

In agriculture, it will take both better breeding—for more water efficient crops—and smarter irrigation.

在农业中，既要培养更多能高效利用水资源的优良作物品种，也要加强建设智能灌溉。

Diesel alone, which powers the pumps irrigating Egypt's farms, accounts for $7.5 billion in subsidies and is sold to consumers at the equivalent of 16 cents a litre, whereas most Europeans pay $2 or more.

在埃及，单单用于灌溉的柴油补贴，每年就有75亿美金。在埃及，这些柴油以相当于16美分每公升的价格卖给消费者，然而在欧洲，消费者需要支付两美元或者更多。

In the north-western regions that are India's most arid, such as Rajasthan and Gujarat, the baolis underwrote life, as sources of both irrigation and drinking water.

在印度最干旱的西北地区，如拉贾斯坦邦和古吉拉特邦，baoli作为灌溉和饮用水的来源，支撑了们的生活。

The irrigation equipment is still there.

灌溉设备仍在。

We put in cisterns to irrigate.

我们还放了水箱进行灌溉。

They help provide irrigation and hydropower and protect communities from flooding.

它们提供灌溉和水力发电，并保护社区免受洪水侵袭。

That's one of the reasons why, when we use it as a hydroponic medium, we like to irrigate it constantly, so we're always dripping water through that perlite to make sure that there's water being supplied to the plant roots.

这就为什么当我们使用它作为水培介质时，我们喜欢不断地灌溉它， 这样我们可以通过珍珠岩确保有水供应到植物根部。

But food insecurity default in Mwale family may be coming to an end after a United Nations project go with them to switch to irrigation farming.

Mwale一家遭遇的粮食短缺问题可能要结束了，因为联合国为他们准备了一个项目，让他们可以转向灌溉农业。