农业是世界淡水的头号用户。
加拿大有三分之一的世界淡水，其中大部分是在五大湖。
Canada has one-third of the world's fresh water, and much of it is in the five Great Lakes.
世界淡水资源面积是3500万公倾，占地球总体水资源的2.5%。
WaterFreshwater only makes 2.5% of the total volume of the world's water, which is about 35 million km3.
但是美国东南部，尤其是阿巴拉契亚山脉南部，却脱颖而出成为世界淡水生物聚居中心。
But it is the American Southeast that stands out as a world center of freshwater-species diversity, especially the southern Appalachian Mountains.
该区占世界石油储备量的15%，占世界可耕地面积的1/4（大量尚未开垦），占世界淡水量的30%，并且有丰富的矿产资源储备。
The region has 15% of the world’s oil reserves, a large stock of its minerals, a quarter of its arable land (much of it unused) and 30% of its fresh water.
世界上大部分的饮用水——适合饮用的淡水——是由地下水提供的，它储存在岩石的孔隙和裂缝中。
Most of the world's potable water—freshwater suitable for drinking—is accounted for by groundwater, which is stored in the pores and fractures in rocks.
世界上五分之一的淡水也存在于亚马逊雨林中。
One fifth of the world's fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest.
但是脱盐仍然很贵，尤其是从能源消耗方面来看，这也是为什么脱盐在目前只提供世界0.4%的淡水。
But it is still expensive, especially in terms of energy use, which is why at present it provides only 0.4% of the world's fresh water.
我的意思是，我觉得你的努力是很好的，但是世界上到处都是生活在淡水中的乌龟。
I mean, I think your efforts are kind and all, but there are fresh water turtles living in lakes all around the world.
锯脂鲤属的有着锋利牙齿的水虎鱼是和纳氏锯脂鲤是世界上最残忍的淡水鱼类。
The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world.
这种世界唯一的淡水豚的数量已经锐减到1800头以下，现在的数量还不到十年前估计数量的一半。
The world's only freshwater porpoise is down to fewer than 1800 individuals, less than half the estimated population a decade ago.
布罗德·贝克是法国珍珠出口商人。他说，中国淡水珍珠现在占据世界珍珠生产总量的大约95%。
Didier Brodbeck, a French pearl expert, says Chinese fresh water pearls now account for about 95 percent of the world's total pearl production.
世界各地山脉上冰川和积雪的消融将耗尽下游城市和农田所依赖的淡水。
Glacier and snow-melt in the world's mountain chains depletes freshwater flows to downstream cities and agricultural land.
淡水河谷现在是世界上第二大矿业公司：比必和必拓小，但是比力拓和其它比较出名的对手要大。
It is now the world's second-largest miner: smaller than BHP Billiton, but bigger than Rio Tinto and other better-known rivals.
新的全球分析显示，约80%的世界人口生活在淡水供应不安全的地区。
About 80% of the world's population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis.
你说农业是世界头号淡水用户。
You say that agriculture is the world's number-one user of freshwater.
如果格陵兰冰盖消失，世界各地的海平面将升高七米——因为现在世界10%的淡水都被冻结在这里。
If the Greenland ice sheet disappeared sea levels around the world would rise by seven metres, as 10% of the world's fresh water is currently frozen here.
按照世界自然基金会的看法，通过这种方式获得淡水是“昂贵的、高耗能的，并且排放了温室气体”，但现在它的成本正在下降，并且正在蓬勃发展。
According to the WWF, it's an "expensive, energy intensive and greenhouse gas-emitting way to get fresh water", but costs are falling and the industry is booming.
仍有500,000人没有永久性居住场所，200,000人无法获得淡水和350,000人正在接受联合国世界粮食计划署的粮食援助。
Some 500,000 people still have no permanent home, 200,000 have no access to fresh water and 350,000 are receiving WFP food aid.
仍有500，000人没有永久性居住场所， 200，000人无法获得淡水和350，000人正在接受联合国世界粮食计划署的粮食援助。
Some 500, 000 people still have no permanent home, 200, 000 have no access to fresh water and 350, 000 are receiving WFP food aid.
科学家们一致认为，世界整体气温上升2摄氏度将严重影响粮食生产，造成更多的物种丧失和淡水供应困难。
Scientists are agreed that an overall rise of 2C inworld temperatures would be serious for food production, species lossand freshwater supplies.
而美国东南部地区正是世界上各种淡水动物物种集聚的中心，以阿巴拉契亚山脉南部山区为其中的典型。
But it is the American Southeast that stands out as a world centerof freshwater-species diversity, especially the southern AppalachianMountains.
世界水循环中，每年平均只有9%的淡水流失。
The global average withdrawal of fresh water was 9% of the amount that flowed through the world’s hydrologic cycle.
OLKHON是世界上最大的淡水中的岛屿，并且是在贝加尔湖唯一有人居住的最大的岛屿。
Olkhon is one of the largest fresh-water islands in the world, and the largest and only inhabited one on Lake Baikal.
海豚是哺乳动物，人们可以在世界上大多数的海洋和淡水中找到它。
They are mammals that can be found in most of the world's oceans, as well as in fresh water.
海豚是哺乳动物，人们可以在世界上大多数的海洋和淡水中找到它。
They are mammals that can be found in most of the world's oceans, as well as in fresh water.
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