As a water community, we are all keenly aware of the water-related crises the earthquake will introduce.

作为一个水利共同体，我们都十分关心地震引起的与水相关的灾难。

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If an earthquake, hurricane or other disaster strikes your community, you might not have access to food, water, and electricity for days or even weeks.

如果地震、飓风或其他的灾害突袭你的家园，你可能会好几天甚至好几个星期都无法获得食物、水和电。

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During its yearly World Water Day observance last month it called on the international community to work together to solve the water crisis.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Or this community that doesn't have safe drinking water so regularly children die of diarrhea because they cannot afford to treat their water, they don't have the fuel to boil their water or something.

可能还有这样一个地方，那里没有安全的饮用水,孩子们时常死于痢疾,因为他们拿不出钱对水进行处理，也没有燃料来把水烧开。

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"We'd like to expand as much as we can where there are empty lots that have ample amounts of sunlight, that have access to water and that have a community rallying around projects such as this."

VOA: special.2010.07.06

We need to create a Clean Water Trust Fund that would ensure a source of money for critical community water systems no matter the funding whims of congress and the president.

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But what happens when you bring water to a community that never had it?

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Or Razanamalala who got a loan from the community water committee we helped set up.

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