The practice caught on elsewhere, helping the farmers of the basin to get through the recent long drought using far less water than before yet with no reduction in output.

该做法也被其他地方效仿。尽管农民能用的水比以前要少很多，但这种做法使他们度过了这个很长的干旱期，使它们的农作物产量不会减少。

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Her new study looked at the consequences of this long-term effect in terms of sea level rise and drought.

她的新研究就是考察这一后果（海水中二氧化碳和热量的长期释放）对海平面升高和干旱的长期影响。

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There are those who think this drought will finish in October with the coming of the long rains and everything will go back to normal.

有人认为当漫长的雨季在十月到来后，干旱就会结束， 所有的一切都将恢复正常。

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There are warnings that spring in this part of the southern hemisphere is likely to bring more hot weather, exacerbating a long drought.

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I drove as best I could and came out victorious." The Holcomb,29, said it was a thrill to end the long U.S.drought in the four-man bobsled.

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Callahan provided the lead 34 seconds in, Derek Stepan added a goal in the first period, and Taylor Pyatt snapped a long drought in the second for the eighth-place Rangers, who are inching closer to a playoff berth.

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Mr Nesbitt said the UUP had "listened carefully to the many pro-union voters in Mid Ulster who were calling for co-operation in this election and for the opportunity to end the long drought that has seen Mid Ulster without representation in the House of Commons for 16 long years".

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Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt MLA said they had "listened carefully to the many pro-Union voters in Mid Ulster who were calling for co-operation in this election and for the opportunity to end the long drought that has seen Mid Ulster without representation in the House of Commons for 16 long years".

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