Agriculture siphons off more than 65 percent, half of which is lost in leaky pipes and ditches.

农业用掉了65%，但是其中的一半白白损失在破烂的输水管和水渠中了。

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American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves; usually rooted in muddy bottoms of ponds and ditches.

一种美国水生植物，叶肾形或圆心形，佛焰苞具有短的柄或无柄；通常扎根在池塘和水沟的底部淤泥中。

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Gas-phase oxidation treatment resulted in distrihution of some micro-pores and ditches at the carbon fiber surface and led to stress concentration therefore, the composite strength was not high.

结果表明：空气氧化处理碳纤维表面形成微孔和刻蚀沟槽，容易形成应力集中，复合材料的强度不高；

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are built in parks and on college campus, hazards consist of things like fountains,parking lots,and ditches.

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In south-east Georgia, Camden County officials sent out teams to clean out storm drains and ditches in preparation for possible flooding.

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Biologists surmise that fish in the lake have high levels of organochlorines caused by chemicals accumulating in ponds and ditches on the land off the northeast part of the lake.

CNN: Chemicals killing Florida birds, fish

Finally, our train heaves out of the station and past the creeks of Mombasa Island, belching out plumes of thick smoke as we swoop around shanty towns where corrugated iron roofs glisten in the rain, and ditches where frogs croak in the darkness.

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