As our guide, Ashok Verma, later told me in Varanasi, India: “Crafts are the best thing to buy; they have people’s dreams woven into them.”

就像我们的导游 Ashok Verma后来在瓦拉纳西告诉我们的那样，“手工艺品是最值得买的东西，里面有人们的梦想。”

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These competing demands are lowering water levels all along the Ganges, a crisis most apparent in the sacred city of Varanasi.

这些竞争的需求降低了恒河全流域的水位，一场危机很明显的在圣城瓦拉纳西(Varanasi)展开了。

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Even so, water levels have fallen steeply: the Ganges once had an average depth of about 197 ft. (60 m) around Varanasi, but in some places it is now only 33 ft. (10 m).

即使这样，水位还是下降了很多：在瓦拉纳西，恒河曾经平均水深197英尺(60米)，但是有些河段现在只有33英寸(10米)。

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In Varanasi, her guests travel on the river in flower-decked boats with musicians instead of just watching from the riverbanks as other travelers do.

FORBES: Pallavi Shah, Our Personal Guest

Unless you already happen to live beside a stunning mountain lake in Guatemala or inside a fairy-tale walled garden in Varanasi, you are far, far away, but your individual comforts and desires are still in familiar focus.

FORBES: Editor's Note

The frames and the power in the power looms came to be completely made by small-scale almost home garage entrepreneurs in Varanasi.

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