They are always short of water to drink, much less to bathe in.

他们总是缺饮用水，更不用说洗澡水了。

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Water is important to all living things but some areas in the world are short of water a lot.

水对所有生物都很重要，但是世界上有些地区却经常缺水。

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Even though we worked so hard, the production level of fruit was still low because it was short of water there.

尽管我们如此努力劳作，水果的产量仍然很低，因为那里缺水。

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It is also short of water, which must be constantly replenished, because much of the canal is above sea-level.

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Without huge improvements, according to a decade-old official estimate, by 2050, when its population will be a shade under 1.7 billion, India will run short of water.

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Bolting cooling facilities onto an OTEC generator, and also using some of the resulting power for desalination on islands like the Bahamas that are short of fresh water, helps tip the economic balance in favour of OTEC.

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