不幸的是，从海洋中蒸发出来的水，其中大部分——约占到总量的五分之四——会直接回落到海洋中。

Unfortunately, most of the water picked up from oceans – some four-fifths of the total – promptly falls back into the sea.

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“一旦他们开始开矿，大山将被夷为平地，河流会干涸，我们会失去维生方式，”他说道，“我们会成为离水之鱼。”

"Once they start mining the mountain will be bulldozed and the rivers will dry up and our livelihood will be lost," he says. "We will become fish out of water."

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这也带来了一些变化，这样会有百分之五十的可能我们吃下的食物或喝下的水会走错进错误的管道中。

Together these changes leave falling food or water about a 50-50 chance of falling in the "wrong tube."

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