Apart from wasting resource and affecting environment, it consumes national wealth.

不仅浪费资源和产生环境影响，而且消耗国家财富。

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But it's a practice which the World Bank says adds to the globe's greenhouse gas emissions and also leads to the wasting of a valuable energy resource.

然而，世界银行说，这种做法增加了全球温室气体排放，也浪费了宝贵的能源资源。

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Physically, there are thousands of potential gold medallists out there, but if they've not got the internal resource to push themselves into the ground every day, you're wasting your time with them.

身体上，有成千上万的潜在金牌得主在那里，但如果他们还没有得到内部资源本身每天都推到了地上，你是在浪费你的时间和他们在一起。

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"Unless these small hydro projects are done, we are wasting an existing resource, " says Babar.

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You can grow in 2011, but to do so you need to shed the old planning system (and its resource wasting processes) and get serious about scenario planning.

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