This will also add to sediment in rivers and reservoirs, affecting storage capacity and water quality.

这也会增加河流和水库的沉积物，影响蓄水容量和水质。

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Their storage reservoirs stop the flow of rivers and often submerge towns, farms, and historic sites.

它们的蓄水池阻止了河流的流动，于是经常会淹没城镇、农场和历史遗迹。

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Surface water-mostly rivers, lakes and reservoirs-will not flow from one basin into another without artificial diversion, and usually only with pumping.

包括主要由河流、湖泊、和水库组成的地表水必须要通过人工引流才能从一个盆地进入另一个盆地，很多时候能够依赖的技术只有水泵。

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Rivers and reservoirs have run dry.

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The bacterium legionella pneumophila and related bacteria are common in natural water sources such as rivers, lakes and reservoirs, but usually in low numbers.

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This is the water found in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and those underground sources that are shallow enough to be tapped at an affordable cost.

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