Even though pumping from these depths is expensive, it is still cheaper than desalinating the ocean water in the large coastal state.

尽管从这种深度抽水很昂贵，但仍然比在这个沿海大州进行海水脱盐来得便宜。

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It could continue as a virtual state even though it is a rock under the ocean and its people no longer live on that piece of land.

它可能作为一个虚拟的国家继续存在，尽管它已是海里面的一块石头，并且它的子民已经不再生活在那里。

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Scientists at Oregon State University have identified vast reservoirs of water beneath the ocean floor.

俄勒冈州立大学的科学家已经确定，在海底下面储存着大量的水。

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I'm Steve Ember. Today,Mary Tillotson and I welcome you to a group of islands that extends into the Atlantic Ocean from the southern state of Florida.

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Hawaii,far out in the Pacific Ocean, is the Aloha State.

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But he still has memories of those days. He recalls standing on his grandfather's shoulders in his native state of Hawaii, waiting for the Apollo 11 space capsule to be plucked from the Pacific Ocean and brought to shore.

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One is Rhode Island, which in two decades lost 10% of its population, much of it to estate-tax-free Florida, according to the Ocean State Policy Research Institute.

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The International Programme for the State of the Ocean (IPSO) is now telling us the oceans have reached a do or die phase.

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