More than a million households are without fresh water.

超过一百万个家庭没有淡水供应。

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Without fresh water, our human society would come to a stop.

没有淡水，我们的人类社会将会终止。

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With a further 1m homeless and many more without fresh water, more deaths from disease and starvation seem inevitable.

在100万人无家可归、许多的人没有饮用水的状况下，疾病和饥饿造成更多死亡不可避免。

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So far,the answer is no. Even though some of Louisiana's quarter-million hectares of rice farms are located within shouting distance of bespoiled marshes, rice ponds rely on fresh water from wells and rainfall - not saltwater that,even without oil, would kill tender plants.

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One of the development goals set by the United Nations at the millennium was to halve the proportion of people without basic sanitation and a decent source of fresh water by 2015.

ECONOMIST: It must also be clean

Without the pot, we never would have roamed far from sources of fresh water, and wouldn't be able to preserve food to get through famines and harsh weather.

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