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水资源问题 Water Resources Problems 大学英语作文 Life on earth depends on water,and there is no substitute for it. The current assumption is that our basic needs for water-whether for drinking, agriculture, industry or the raising of fish--will always have to be met. Given that premise, there are two basic routes we can go. more equitable access to water or more drastic engineering solutions. 地球上的生命依赖于水，而且水是无法替代的。 目前人们的假 设是，不管是饮用水还是农业、工业、渔业用水，我们对水的基本需 要能够得到满足。在这一前提下，我们有两条基本道路可走：更合理 地 利 用 水 资 源 或 建 立 更 多 大 型 的 水 利 工 程 。 Looking at the engineering solution first, a lot of my research concentrates on what happens to wetlands when you build dams in river basins, particularly in Africa. The ecology of such areas is almost entirely driven by the seasonal change of the river--the pulse of the water. And the fact is that if you build a dam, you generally wreck the downstream ecology. In the past, such 1 problems have been hidden by a lack of information. But in the next century, governments will have no excuse for their blissful ignorance. 先来看看水利工程问题。 我的大量研究的焦点在于如果你在河谷 (尤其是非洲河谷 )建立大坝，这会对湿地产生什么影响。该地区的生 态几乎完全受控于河流的季节性变化——河水的涨落。 事实上，如果 你在上游建了水坝，通常会破坏下游的生态环境。过去，这类问题由 于信息匮乏而鲜为人知。 但在下个世纪， 政府就不能为自己的盲目乐 观找借口了。 The engineers ability to control water flows has created new kinds of unpredictability too. Dams in Africa have meant fewer fish, less grazing and less floodplain agriculture--none of which were anticipated. And their average economic life is assumed to be thirty years. Dams dont exist for ever, b