The spill spread over 165 square miles and posed a serious threat to both sea life and water quality.

原油的蔓延扩散超过了165平方英里，对海洋生物和水质造成了严重威胁。

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Water and heat from volcanic activity are two basic conditions needed for life to form.

火山活动所散发的热量和水是形成生命的两个基本条件。

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Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing and reproduction.

从水中迁移到陆地上，涉及到生活的方方面面的重大改变，包括呼吸和繁殖方式。

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Life is thought to need both water and the right chemicals to guarantee survival.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Water and organic materials are necessary for life as we know it.

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But in 2008 life changed for about 55 families in Penjaringan when the international aid organization Mercy Corps installed a separate tank and ran water lines to households able to pay the $20 start-up fee.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The fountain depicts a life-size female figure pouring water from an urn into a bowl with the inscriptions "take the water of life freely" and "water is best".

BBC: Rebecca Fountain in Bath

That single event has illustrated just how important clean water is to the health of our communities and our economy, and how entire ways of life count on clean water and a healthy environment.

WHITEHOUSE: Blog Action Day: Protecting America��s Waters Today

The court heard how the spills saw untreated sewage engulf areas around the loch, "smothering" plant life and starving the surrounding water of oxygen.

BBC: Castle Semple Loch, Lochwinnoch