Along the river, rice and wheat fields have turned to baked dirt. Canals have dwindled to shallow streams, and fishing boats sit on dry land.

沿河的稻田和麦田都是一片焦土.运河干枯成浅溪 渔船搁浅在干地上.本来用于浇灌土地的水泵现在毫无意义地悬在污浊的水坑上方.

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For most of Bangkok's 220year history, boats were the only way to get around the Thai capital, which straddles 2 both the Chao Phyaya River and a tangled network of klongs, or canals.

在曼谷220年历史的大部分时间里，乘船是游览这个泰国首都的唯一方式。曼谷位于湄南河及纵横交错的运河网的交汇处。

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With2500 years long history, Shaoxing city is famous for her numerous canals, Bridges and Wupeng boats.

有着2500年历史的绍兴市，以纵横交错的河道、多的石桥和乌篷船而闻名于世。

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Sometimes it is necessary for the team to patrol on foot and sometimes they use speed boats on the rivers and canals which criss-cross the park.

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But the conservationists warn that, unless they act now, they will soon have to choose between killing off the manatee population completely or restricting boats so severely that messing about on the rivers, canals and bays of South Florida will no longer be such fun.

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To reduce carbon emissions from transportation they use vans powered by bio-diesel inside London and even claim to use boats on England's network of canals to transport produce from outside the capital.

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