People in temperate climates where the rain falls moderately all the year round may not realise how much water is needed for farming.

生活在全年降雨量平稳的温带地区的人可能没有意识到耕作是多么地依赖于水。

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More than a billion people in Asia rely on glacial meltwater for a steady, year-round supply of fresh water.

在亚洲，有数亿居民依赖于稳定的冰川融水，这是他们全年淡水的来源。

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Her hosts held a festive celebration, then showed her the dam, an eight-foot-high sand-and-concrete structure that traps and filters water so that it's available and drinkable year-round.

接待她的主人举行了节日庆典，然后，带她看了水坝——八英尺高的沙和混凝土结构，圈住并过滤能够全年供应的饮用水。

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We help these families have permanent land for cultivation, we help them access modern technology with low-water-intake drip irrigation, we create village reservoirs for year-round water, and then we teach them to produce fruits and vegetables with a harvest every two weeks so they can sell year round.

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The company says that these reservoirs will provide year-round water supplies in areas that currently suffer during the dry season.

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Given year-round water, Sicilians could grow early fruit and vegetables.

ECONOMIST: Danilo Dolci