In hilly areas, water pumping irrigation lift is high, and the irrigation water fee is high because of the high pumping cost, so the burdens on farmers are very heavy.

丘陵地区提水灌溉需要的扬程高，水费占灌溉成本的比重大，农民的负担很重。

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Often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry tropics is through small-scale projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions and pumping it to nearby cropland.

在干旱的热带地区，提供灌溉水的最低成本的方法通常是建造小规模的工程。例如，在洼地收集雨水，然后将其抽调至附近的农田。

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Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them.

在许多国家，数以百万计的灌溉井现在从地下水源抽水的速度，超过了降雨所能再次填满的速度。

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In places like Syria and southern Iraq that are now being dried out by the Turkish dams, irrigation is primitive - often involving nothing more than water trucks pumping water out of the Euphrates and driving it over to fields that are often less than a kilometer away.

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