In many European cities, people are saving water by using less.

在许多欧洲城市，人们通过减少用水来节约用水。

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The people who hunted the sparse desert animals responded to drought by managing the wild resources they hunted and gathered, especially wild oxen, which had to have regular water supplies to survive.

稀有沙漠动物的捕猎者通过管理所他们捕猎和采集的野生资源来应对干旱，尤其是必须有稳定水供应才能生存的野牛。

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Since the 1950s, the amount of water people use has increased by three times.

自20世纪50年代以来，人类用水量增加了三倍。

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People around the world can prevent diseases spread by mosquitoes by removing standing water from their property.

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But nature plays a role as well. As for climate change, severe water shortages are predicted to affect between 75 and 250 million people by 2020.

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International relief efforts have struggled to overcome the enormous logistical challenges of bringing food, water and temporary shelter to the hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by the earthquake.

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Through its Water for Life Decade (2005-2015), the United Nations is working to meet the Millennium Development Goals to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 and to put a stop to the unsustainable exploitation of water resources.

UNESCO: Water Policy and Science

Most striking was a promise to cut by half the number of people with inadequate water and sanitation, and to try to do so by 2015.

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The aid will also be directed to Tearfund's work in the Fizi territory of the DRC, providing water and sanitation facilities to people displaced by a flare-up in conflict in April.

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