直到最近，水资源私有化几乎成为第三世界所特有的问题。

Until recently, water privatization was an almost exclusively Third World issue.

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我多次在世界旅行，曾看到整个城市、社会体系甚至是国家，因为水资源问题而消失了。

I've been around the world a couple of times, I've seen whole cities, societies and countries disappear because of water problems.

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例如，中东和北非地区的水资源用量已达到该地区总量的80%，世界银行新发布的一份报告——《竭力解决缺水问题》表示。

The Middle East and North Africa, for instance, already USES 80 percent of the water that falls in the region, according to a new World Bank report, "Making the Most of Scarcity."

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And elsewhere in the world, water becomes a major, major issue.

在世界的其他地区,水资源成了一个非常非常重要的问题

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