Several hundred miles eastward from Florida there is a part of the ocean called the Sargasso Sea. Here the water is quiet, for there is little wind.

佛罗里达州向东几百英里有一处海域叫马尾藻海，这里由于很少刮风，海面很平静。

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And as any water saved by irrigators passes down to more junior rights holders, there is little incentive there to adopt technologies which boost water efficiency.

如果灌溉系统节约的水传到了更小权威的持有者，那么对促进节水技术应用就没有那么大的动力了。

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There is little water in the bottle, isn't there?

瓶子里几乎没有水，不是吗？

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Is it because it is so far from land and there is very little happening in the water column directly above it?

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In Lagos, there is sea water everywhere - but little to drink.

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Because they are preserved in the Gale crater still today, it implies that the water there had relatively little acidity -- that is, it was fresh water, like the water you'd find in most ponds or lakes on Earth today.

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