“这就像是‘买一送一’的交易”，道格拉斯·肯尼说，他是科罗拉多州大学法学院的教授，同时也是一本探讨水资源与能源之间关系的书的编辑。

"It's a 'buy one, get one free' deal," said Douglas Kenney, a professor at the University of Colorado Law School and the editor of an upcoming book that explores the nexus of water and energy.

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计划要求每年从扬子江向北方调送45万亿升(12万亿加仑)水资源。

The plans call for sending 45 trillion liters (12 trillion gallons) of water a year from the Yangtze to the north.

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目前，任何地方的供水价格都不是根据有多么缺水或是送水的代价多大而制定的，这正是支持水源私有化的人们的观点所在，也是引起滥用水资源现象的根源所在。

Right now, no public utility anywhere prices water based on how scarce it is or how much it costs to deliver, and that, privatization proponents argue, is the root cause of such rampant overuse.

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