According to the WWF, it's an "expensive, energy intensive and greenhouse gas-emitting way to get fresh water", but costs are falling and the industry is booming.

按照世界自然基金会的看法，通过这种方式获得淡水是“昂贵的、高耗能的，并且排放了温室气体”，但现在它的成本正在下降，并且正在蓬勃发展。

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Lake Koroneia is surrounded by farmland and in the 1980s it suffered from increasingly intensive agriculture, but also from the growth of industry. Factories emptied waste water into the lake.

Koroneia湖周围都是农田，并且在1981年承受了不断增加的密集农业以及工业增长的压力，周围的工厂把污水排入湖中，周边Lagadas镇的污水也同样排放到这里，污水处理站建立于2001年，但依旧没有与排水系统连接。

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Environmentalists strongly oppose shale-gas extraction due to fears that fracking may contaminate water supplies, the oil-sands industry because it is energy-intensive and dirty, and deep-water drilling because of the risk of oil spills like last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster.

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Sugar cane, which is planted in the summer, is a water-intensive crop and farmers may shift to other crops temporarily, industry executives said.

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Intensive development of agriculture and industry may become a reason of deterioration of underground water in various regions in the absence of water-protective measures which can prevent its pollution.

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