"City of Water", Venice, Italy, is a magical place. It is one of the few cities in the world where the sound of cars is never heard.
意大利的“水城”威尼斯是一个神奇的天堂，它是世界上少数几个听不到汽车声的城市之一。
The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
该市已经提出了一系列的水资源处理和保护项目，这些项目的成本大大提高了水费，以至于连环保人士也开始发出警告。
At the city of Coba the Maya built dikes around a lake in order to raise its level and make their water supply more reliable.
在科巴市，玛雅人围绕着一个湖泊修建堤坝，以提高水位，使供水更加稳定可靠。
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。
Out of desperation, city engineers began buying up land and water rights in the Owens Valley, east of the Sierra Nevada.
绝望之下，城市开发者们开始在内华达山脉东边的欧文斯谷大肆抢购土地权和用水权。
WALL of water charged through Toowoomba, a city in south-east Queensland, on January 10th, sweeping unsuspecting people before it.
1月10日，随着一轮由洪水形成的水墙朝昆士兰州东南部城市图文巴袭来后，汹涌的洪水冲向了毫无准备的人们。
And as any Stockholmer will proudly tell you, even in the heart of the city, the water is so clean that you can fish in it, swim in it, or even drink it.
斯德哥尔摩人会得意的告诉你，即使在市中心，水也干净得足以钓鱼，游泳与饮用。
The Liujiang River, which is the main source of drinking and industrial water use of the city, suffered from pollution from untreated sewage and rainwater flows.
作为柳州市工业和居民生活用水主要水源的柳江则受到部分未经处理的污水和雨水排放污染。
That's much cheaper, Fishman says, than figuring out how to pump more water into the city, which takes 90 percent of its water from a lake plagued with drought issues.
菲什曼说，这样做比想方设法增加城市供水便宜多了——该市90%的用水量源自饱受干旱困扰的湖泊。
The people of Gaza City and the north now have no water. That comes on top of having no electricity.
加沙市和其北部地区的人们现在不但没有电，甚至没有水。
Breaks in the city's levee system flooded 80 percent of the city with water.
城市防洪堤系统的破坏让水淹没了整个城市的80%。
But there is no indication that buses also ferried people out of the city, beyond the reach of water.
但并没有指示这些巴士在洪水来临之前将人们运送出城。
It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Gihon spring and channeled the water down to the west side of the City of David.
这希西家也塞住基训的上源，引水直下，流在大卫城的西边。
Throughout most of its history, the city of Houston primarily drew water from the Jasper Aquifer, located along the southeastern coast of Texas.
纵观其历史，休斯敦主要从绵延于德克·萨斯东南海岸的JasperAquifer获取水资源。
OFFICIALS in Tampa, Florida, got a surprise recently when a local firm building the state's first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water.
佛罗里达州坦帕市的官员们最近不大不小吃了一惊：一家企业要求该市每天向他们供水四十万加仑(一百五十万升)。这家企业(US Envirofuels)正在兴建佛罗里达州第一家乙醇燃料工厂。
OFFICIALS in Tampa, Florida, got a surprise recently when a local firm building the state's first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400, 000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water.
佛罗里达州坦帕市的官员们最近不大不小吃了一惊：一家企业要求该市每天向他们供水四十万加仑（一百五十万升）。 这家企业（US Envirofuels）正在兴建佛罗里达州第一家乙醇燃料工厂。
When asked what happens if the city does run out of bottled water supplies, Maki states simply, "what can we do?"
当问他们，一旦瓶装水供应中断了，会发生怎样的情况时，真希的回答很简单：“我们又能做什么呢？”
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.
我现今站在井旁，城内居民的女子们正出来打水。
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。
Because Sana could be the first big city in the world to run out of water, within a decade.
因为萨那可能会是世界上第一个在十年内用光水的大城市。
Atthis hour, the city smells of the night's dead heat mingled with oily water.
此时此刻，这个城市充满了一种混合着油污水的闷热的夜晚的味道。
Geologists eventually realized that the cause was Houston's withdrawal of fresh water from the aquifer located under the city.
地质学家最终认识到导致海平面上升的原因是，休斯顿从城市地下的含水土层抽取淡水。
Television networks have broadcast images of mud-covered communities, cars upended on city streets and reported huge Numbers of villagers without drinking water, food and power.
国家电视广播网已播放了被污泥覆盖社区的录像，汽车倒在道旁，并报道大量的村民没有饮用水，食品和电力供应。
The area around Los Angeles was once too dry to sustain the population of a huge city. But infrastructure was built that allowed water to be pumped in from east of the region.
其中一些已很明显，洛杉矶曾因太干旱而不能满足一个大城市人口所需的用水量，但美国人修建了东水西调的基础设施。
The situation is particularly serious in Gonaives, where parts of the city remain under water, people have taken refuge in shelters and there is no access to some communities outside the city.
“戈纳伊夫市局势尤其严峻，该市仍有部分城区被水淹，民众暂时栖身于避难所，城外一些社区道路不通，外界无法进入”。
In September 2009, the Australian city of Bundanoon became the first city in the world to completely ban bottled water from its stores' shelves, installing water fountains instead.
2009年9月，澳大利亚城市本达奴恩成为世界上第一个彻底禁止瓶装水上架的城市，代以喷泉式饮水机。
In September 2009, the Australian city of Bundanoon became the first city in the world to completely ban bottled water from its stores' shelves, installing water fountains instead.
2009年9月，澳大利亚城市本达奴恩成为世界上第一个彻底禁止瓶装水上架的城市，代以喷泉式饮水机。
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