亚特兰大城在2008年差点中断饮用水供给，因为城市管理者十多年都没有为增长的人口提供足够的费用。
Atlanta almost ran out of drinking water in 2008, because the city had not spent any effort over several decades on providing water to its growing population.
然而，以每平方公里约7000人的人口密度跻身于世界第三大人口稠密国家的新加坡，其陆地总量并不能供给5,000,000常驻人口足够的饮用水。
Yet with around 7, 000 people per square kilometre, Singapore is the third most densely populated country in the world. Its land mass is not large enough to supply its 5m inhabitants with water.
毫无疑问，脱盐会增加可饮用水的量，可以增加有些工业过程所必需的高纯水的供给，甚至还能增加高等作物(尤其是为出口而种植的作物)灌溉水的供给。
It will undoubtedly add to the supply of drinking water, of the ultra-pure water required for some industrial processes, even of irrigation for high-value crops, especially if grown for export.
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