This is because most renewable energy plants use a tiny fraction of the amount of water extracted by dirty plants.

这是因为大多数可再生能源发电厂的用水仅仅只占有污染发电厂用水的微小的一部分。

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Water extracted from potatoes could replace supplies from the tap and even provide drinking water in areas suffering from drought.

从土豆中榨取的水分能够取代自来水的供应，在一些干旱地区甚至能为人们提供饮用水。

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Selected means are soil section and region surveys. Tracing phase states are water extracted gold, organic combined gold and nature gold.

选定的手段是土壤剖面及面积性土壤测量，测定的相态是水提取金、有机结合金、自然金。

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Oxygen could be derived from ilmanite reserves there and water could be extracted to make rocket fuel or sustain life on a base.

CNN: Mining the moon for a nuclear future

For many countries, though, the first booty from any newly acquired seabed will be either oil or gas, both of which can now be extracted fairly easily from deep water.

ECONOMIST: The scramble for the seabed

The US will probably need to explore novel sources of fresh water in the near future, with rivers in the southwest extracted beyond sustainable limits and with climate change threatening to push them further into the red.

BBC: Canada wins few friends on climate