A new law specified that houses must be a certain distance back from the water.

一项新法律详细规定了房子必须与水域相隔一定的距离。

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Look at Zanesville, Ohio. Here is a map a lawyer made, put on at the water plant, seeing which houses are there, which houses have been connected to the water?

看看俄亥俄州曾斯维尔，这是一张律师制作的在自来水厂地图，看到那些房子，谁家连着用水？

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Drinking water is usually kept near the houses.

通常这些饮用水就放在房屋旁边。

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Many years later, settlers used the tar,or asphalt, on the tops of their houses to keep water out.

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But it does not keep people from getting health care or clean water to their houses."

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The water washed away boats, cars and houses in coastal areas north of Tokyo.

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But from a cultural prospective it is simple: one day the land we live on will be water, houses will be flooded and gone.

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Crews helped some residents pump water out of their houses but no homes were evacuated.

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In Africa, people who have water piped to their houses use three times as much as households without.

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