我们不应让废弃物污染我们的河川。
这些河流和河川系统被称作“外源河流”,因为它们的源头位于干旱地区之外。
These rivers and river systems are known as "exogenous" because their sources lie outside the arid zone.
而全球水荒又完全是另一回事,会冲击到全球粮食和其他作物的供给、并波及全球河川湖海。
A global water crisis, which impinges on supplies of food and other goods, or affects rivers and lakes everywhere, is quite another.
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