如果我们没有建立这么多水库，洪水很可能给人们造成巨大损失。

The flood might have caused great damage to the people if we hadn't built so many reservoirs.

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这么多的垃圾是由于在河流上游附近村庄的居民可能将垃圾扔到了河里，之后垃圾在水库这里堆积起来了。

The amount of garbage can be explained by the fact that residents of the neighbouring villages up the stream may throw it into the river, and here in the reservoir the garbage is piling up.

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年末全国大型水库蓄水总量1962亿立方米，比上年末多蓄水93亿立方米。

Large reservoirs in China stored 196.2 billion cubic meters of water at the end of 2008, 9.3 billion cubic meters more than that at the end of 2007.

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