Modern technology helps to bring water from the snow and ice on the top of the Andes (over 6,000m high) for the city to use.
现代技术帮助从安第斯山脉（6000多米高）山顶的冰雪中引水，供城市使用。
Now the city wants to become a “living laboratory” for smart urban technologies of all kinds—not just water and transport systems but green buildings, clean energy and city management too.
而今，这座城市希望成为各种智能城市技术的“生活实验室”，这些技术不仅包括供水与交通系统，还涉及绿色建筑、清洁能源及城市管理。
Now the city wants to become a "living laboratory" for smart urban technologies of all kinds-not just water and transport systems but green buildings, clean energy and city management too.
而今，这座城市希望成为各种智能城市技术的“生活实验室”，这些技术不仅包括供水与交通系统，还涉及绿色建筑、清洁能源及城市管理。
Since 2000, Houston has been the fifth fastest-growing city in the country, and its presence in an area with high drought likelihood makes it an immediate risk for serious water shortages.
自从2000年开始，休斯顿已是第五大增长最快的城市，但它地处旱灾高发区域，这成为其面临水资源严重短缺的直接风险。
As for water, there is no problem generally, if city water is available.
至于说水，如果有自来水，一般就不成问题。
Maintaining golf courses, gardens, and water parks is a challenge for any city in the United Arab Emirates.
要维持高尔夫球场、园林和水上公园对任何一个阿拉伯联合酋长国都是一个挑战。
Balotelli has been in hot water for a number of incidents recently, being fined one week's wages for throwing darts at Manchester City youth team players.
在最近的一系列事情中，巴洛特利已经处于水深火热之中，之前就因为朝俱乐部的青年队小队员扔飞镖而被处罚了一个星期的薪水。
The typical solution is for a city to build larger pipes and a giant underground tank to hold the excess water until sewers can handle the flow.
典型的解决方法是建造更大直径的排水管和巨大的地下水箱来容纳过量的来水，直至下水管网能够自行处理水流。
The claims for it may be extravagant: the city will, it is said, be self-sufficient in energy and water, green with parks, silent with electric cars and utterly in harmony with nature.
据称，该城市将实现用水自足，能源自足，大范围的公园绿化，还将使用电动车以降低噪音，实现与自然的和谐共处。
Designed to carry the rider over both land and water, this strange bicycle concept was designed especially for the city of Helmond in the Netherlands, which has as many canals as it does roads.
这种能让骑行者在陆路水路两不误的自行车在荷兰的赫尔蒙德这个遍地都是水路的城市发挥最大作用。
Residents have been told they can use running water for only five hours a day because the city can no longer depend on 20 of its 29 reservoirs.
当地居民被告知他们每天只能使用5个小时的用水，因为城市周边的29个水库中20个已经无法供应用水。
This discovery forced city officials to use nearby Lake Houston and Lake Conroe for municipal water instead of the aquifer.
这项发现迫使城市官方用邻近的休斯顿湖和康罗湖代替含水土层，成为该市主要水源。
As the Economist went to press Waukesha was to become the first city beyond the basin to apply for lake water.
正如《经济学家》对沃基沙的报道，它将成为湖区盆地外部的第一个申请输送湖水的城市。
The city is famous for water tunnels and stone structures carved in the rock, including Ad-Dayr, "the Monastery," an uncompleted tomb facade that served as a church during Byzantine times.
城市以水渠与岩石雕刻工程而闻名，其中包括“代依尔”修道院，一座未完工的陵墓正面外观，它在拜占庭时期被用作教堂。
The city is famous for water tunnels and stone structures carved in the rock, including Ad-Dayr, “the Monastery,” an uncompleted tomb facade that served as a church during Byzantine times.
城市以水渠与岩石雕刻工程而闻名，其中包括“代依尔”修道院，一座未完工的陵墓正面外观，它在拜占庭时期被用作教堂。
Usually, water pricing simply means that city dwellers pay for the cost of the pipes that transport it and the sewerage plants that clean it.
通常情况下，城市居民所支付的水价只不过是运输水的管道费用和污水处理厂的清理费用。
At night, the water is released to power turbines, which will provide nighttime power for the city.
到了晚上，再释放水流来发动涡轮机，从而为城市的夜晚供电。
A random search of the common Japanese surname "Sato" brought up hundreds of results, many of them for people living in Sendai — the city that faced the brunt of the thunderous body of rolling water.
随机搜索日本平常姓氏“佐藤”带出上百个结果，其中许多人生活在仙台。这个城市正面临着雷鸣般潮水的正面冲击。
This photo, taken in the winter months of 1942, shows citizens of Leningrad as they dip for water from a broken main, during the nearly 900-day siege of the Russian city by German invaders.
这张照片拍摄于1942年冬天，展现了在德国侵略者对列宁格勒近900天的围攻期间，该市市民在破损的管道中取水的场面。
If water is mainly a problem for people in the country, it does not mean that city-dwellers are unconcerned about their surroundings.
如果水是该国家的一个主要问题，但它并不意味着该国的城市居民不关心他们居住的环境。
It's probably no coincidence that Goldberg, a cartoonist famous for drawing absurdly complex machines, began his career as a water and sewer engineer for the city of San Francisco.
无独有偶，哥德堡，这位以描绘荒谬复杂机械而著称的漫画家的第一份职业正好是旧金山市的给排水工程师。
The salt water of the gulf now pushes up the Faw peninsula. Last year, for the first time in memory, it extended beyond Basra, Iraq's biggest port city, and even Qurna, where the two rivers meet.
海湾的盐水向法奥半岛推进，去年，记忆里第一次，海水漫入了伊拉克最大的港口城市巴士拉，甚至到了两河交汇的科纳地区。
"We haven't had safe water to cook for days," said He Zhangju, 51, from Jinhua town near Mianyang city.
“我们已经好几天没有干净的饮用水来煮饭了，”来自在绵阳市附近的金华镇中51岁高龄的何樟巨老人家说。
His proposal for bringing water to the city is out of the question.
他提议将水引入城内，这是不可能的事。
Islamic Relief is fixing this well to aid members of the community of Beit Hanoun, a city on the northeast edge of the Gaza Strip, to provide drinking water and water for crops.
加沙地带东北部的拜特汉诺地区的人们，这口井修理好之后，能够给他们提供饮用水和用来灌溉良田。
No practical plan has been made for the future to provide the 22 million inhabitants of Mexico city with the water they need without destroying the city.
将来如何在不破坏城市的前提下为墨西哥城的2千2百万居民提供用水，还没有制定出任何切实可行的计划。
This week, the city of Santa Cruz expressed support for letting its municipal waste water be used in a pilot demonstration project in the Pacific Ocean, Trent said.
Trent表示，SantaCruz市也于本周表示愿意将他们的城市废水用于一项在太平洋上的示范性试验项目。
This week, the city of Santa Cruz expressed support for letting its municipal waste water be used in a pilot demonstration project in the Pacific Ocean, Trent said.
Trent表示，SantaCruz市也于本周表示愿意将他们的城市废水用于一项在太平洋上的示范性试验项目。
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