除非大家知道Watkins先生理性管理援助的例子，缺水的穷人仍会继续依靠“其它私营领域”，那通常是唯一能给他们供水的渠道。
Unless Mr Watkins's case for rationally administered aid is heard, poor, thirsty people will continue to turn to the "other private sector", which is often the only provider they can rely on.
佛罗里达州坦帕市的官员们最近不大不小吃了一惊：一家企业要求该市每天向他们供水四十万加仑(一百五十万升)。这家企业(US Envirofuels)正在兴建佛罗里达州第一家乙醇燃料工厂。
OFFICIALS in Tampa, Florida, got a surprise recently when a local firm building the state's first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water.
佛罗里达州坦帕市的官员们最近不大不小吃了一惊：一家企业要求该市每天向他们供水四十万加仑（一百五十万升）。 这家企业（US Envirofuels）正在兴建佛罗里达州第一家乙醇燃料工厂。
OFFICIALS in Tampa, Florida, got a surprise recently when a local firm building the state's first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400, 000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water.
他们设法解决供电和供水的连接问题。前者与后者相比证明很简单。
They grappled with the problem of connecting the electricity and water supplies. The former proved simple compared with the latter.
清洗供水系统是他们的首要任务。
我将捡起垃圾，给运动员提供水，并为他们拍照。
I will pick up the rubbish, offer water to the runners and take photos for them.
他们把绝大多数的援助都投入到诸如供水和卫生系统这样对家庭健康有直接影响的基础设施部门中。
They channel their assistance overwhelmingly to social sectors or to infrastructure sectors such as water supply and sanitation that have direct effects on household health.
研究人员接下来安排了一个“事故”，他们切断了营区的供水。所有的男孩子都要去检查水管（长度不止1公里），看看是不是有哪里堵住了。
The researchers then staged an “incident” in which the camp’s water supply was cut off and all the boys had to check the water pipe (more than 1 km long) to see where it was blocked.
请给他们供电、供水、提供公共卫生设施、预防犯罪。
Get them some grid electricity, water, sanitation, crime prevention.
负责这个项目的工程师表示他们希望能够用从土豆中榨取的水分来运作所有的工厂，这意味着可以全部的供水管道都不有用武之地。
Engineers behind the project say they hope to be able to run entire factories using extracted potato water, meaning they can be unplugged entirely from the mains supply.
在第一个问题中，孩子们被告知一些破坏者蓄意袭击了他们的供水系统。
In the first problem the boys were told the drinking water supply had been attacked by vandals.
比如说，从一开始，他们就组织人们管理那些城市的垃圾场，电力系统，供水系统。
They organized people at the start to, for example, take care of the garbage, take care of electricity, take care of water in those various cities.
他们希望首都尽快恢复首都的供水。
It's hoped that the water supply can be restored to the capital soon.
“当我们向人们提供水品尝时，他们说，‘这味道像水一样，’”他说。
"When we offer people a taste, they say, 'This tastes like water,'" he says.
尽管他们的草料和供水减少了，但他们还是要喂养牛群。
Their forage and water supplies have diminished, but the cattle must still be fed.
报告指出，大多数穷人依赖做水生意的人，他们给没有公共供水的用户服务，象自己架管子、钻井、或用卡车运水。
As the report points out, many of them rely on water freelancers—laying pipes, drilling wells, or trucking water—who sell water to people unserved by public utilities.
他们送孩子到私立学校上学，有自己的供电供水系统。
They send their kids to private schools. They have their own water and electricity.
印度官员表示，他们的供水是安全的。
酒店工作人员给我们提供很多帮助，他们向我们提供水和三明治，当然事实上没有人吃得下，大家都很惊慌。
Hotel staff are helping us a lot, providing water and sandwiches - but nobody is eating really, people are frightened.
他们往往缺乏基本服务，如供水、环卫、电力和街道照明。
They regularly lack basic services such as water, sanitation, electricity and street lighting.
不过，淋浴的流行过程可以用“压倒性”来形容，这支纵向供水的大军横行世界时，我们可怜的老浴缸只能瑟缩在他们所过之处的角落里：上世纪70年代，仅有百分之五的家庭拥有淋浴；
But the rise of the shower has been relentless, a sort of upright army marching across the land, while the poor old bathtub has lain trembling in its wake: in 1970, a mere 5% of homes had a shower;
因为他们正在进行维修，所以停止给我们供水。
We've cut off the water supply because they are doing repairs.
他们改变河道为那座城镇供水。
他们那里供水不足。
他们发出恐吓，比如威胁要在芝加哥供水系统下毒。
And they made threats, like a threat to put drugs into the Chicago water supply.
他们说供水供电常被中断，窗户被打碎。
Their water and power were often shut off and Windows were smashed, say residents.
他们说供水供电常被中断，窗户被打碎。
Their water and power were often shut off and Windows were smashed, say residents.
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