The Murray Darling Basin Authority, a new body charged with saving Australia’s biggest river system from expiring, has its work cut out.

墨累-达令流域委员会，一个负责保护澳大利亚最大河流系统免于干枯的新组织，如今面临着艰巨的任务。

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Arid lands, surprisingly, contain some of the world's largest river systems, such as the Murray-Darling in Australia, the Rio Grande in North America, the Indus in Asia, and the Nile in Africa.

令人惊讶的是，干旱地区拥有着世界上最大的一些河流系统，如澳大利亚的墨累-达令河、北美的里奥格兰德河、亚洲的印度河和非洲的尼罗河。

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The rivers that water some of the world's breadbaskets, such as the Colorado, Murray-Darling and Indus, no longer reach the sea.

一些流域是主要的粮食产地，如科罗拉多河，墨累达令和印度河，这些河已经流不到大海了。

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The Murray Darling Basin Authority, a new body charged with saving Australia's biggest river system from expiring, has its work cut out.

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More than four-fifths of the river water taken from the Murray-Darling basin is used for agriculture.

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In 2007, however, the Howard government passed an act that allowed it to muscle in on water management in the Murray-Darling basin, constitutionally a state responsibility.

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