外國(guó)人最想和你聊的時(shí)事話題：水荒

     There was a famine of water in this locality.
     這地方有過(guò)水荒。
     If we could learn to get portable water from sea water, we would be sure of never having a water shortage.
     假如我們能從海水中提取可飲用水，我們將確信不會(huì)鬧水荒。
     Only if we take steps to deal with this problem now can we avoid a serious worldwide water shortage in the future.
     只有我們現(xiàn)在就采取措施來(lái)解決這個(gè)問(wèn)題，我們才有可能在將來(lái)避免一場(chǎng)全世界性的嚴(yán)重水荒。
     During the famine of water, everyone looked forward to a heavy rain.
     水荒期間，大家都盼望能下一場(chǎng)大雨。
     In South Asia, the Himalayan glaciers could retreat causing water scarcity.
     在南亞，喜馬拉雅山冰河的倒退造成了水荒。
     Shanghai will face an increasing water shortage disaster.
     上海市將面臨日益嚴(yán)峻的水荒災(zāi)害。
     Spain's second-largest city says it is on the brink of a water emergency as a result of one of the worst droughts in living memory.
     西班牙第二大城市巴塞羅納表示，由于遭遇有史以來(lái)最嚴(yán)重的干旱，該市目前處于水荒的邊緣。
     The focus of the first World Water Day has been on a different aspect of freshwater sustainability, including sanitation and water scarcity.
     世界水日的主題集中在淡水資源可持續(xù)利用的不同方面，包括水資源清潔狀況以及水荒。
     It is said by the United Nation that until 2025, 30％ of the countries will face to "water scarcity".
     聯(lián)合國(guó)稱(chēng)到2025年，30％的國(guó)家將面臨"水荒"。
     What's more startling then water scarcity is our continuously crude waste and pollution of our traits of life without restriction.
     比水荒更觸目驚心的是，我們?nèi)栽诤翢o(wú)節(jié)制地、粗暴地浪費(fèi)和污染我們的生命之源。
     Because of water scarcity, there are 150 billion agricultural losses each year.
     因?yàn)槿彼?，每年農(nóng)業(yè)有1500億元的損失。
     China is a country that suffers water scarcity.
     中國(guó)是一個(gè)缺水的國(guó)家。
     While the water scarcity in Northern part is an increasingly worrying issue, the situation of Southern part is also pessimistic.
     如果說(shuō)北方缺水日益嚴(yán)重令人憂心，南方的狀況也并不樂(lè)觀。
     The situation of water scarcity of Beijing cannot be ignored.
     北京水資源匱乏的狀態(tài)不容忽視。
     The sharp reduction of agriculture water supply poses an increasingly big threat to the world food safety.
     農(nóng)業(yè)用水供給的急劇減少對(duì)世界糧食安全構(gòu)成越來(lái)越大的威脅。
     Along with the dry up of rivers and exhaustion of underground aqueous stratum, the increasingly serious water scarcity will increase China's food import sharply.
     隨著河流的干涸和地下蓄水層的枯竭，日趨嚴(yán)重的缺水將急劇增加中國(guó)的糧食進(jìn)口。
Part 3　Let's Talk！　開(kāi)始交流吧！
     Mom: Jimmy?
     媽媽?zhuān)杭祝?br />      Son: Yes, mom. What's going on?
     兒子：是的，媽媽。怎么啦？
     Mom: I've told you for several times that don't keep the tap open when you leave.
     媽媽?zhuān)何乙呀?jīng)和你說(shuō)過(guò)很多次了，當(dāng)你離開(kāi)的時(shí)候不要讓水龍頭一直開(kāi)著。
     Son: I answered a telephone and forget to close the tap.
     兒子：我剛剛接了一個(gè)電話，就忘記關(guān)水龍頭了。
     Mom: You always find excuses, don't you kwon that our country is short of water?
     媽媽?zhuān)耗憧偸钦医杩冢y道你不知道我們國(guó)家是一個(gè)缺水的國(guó)家嗎？
     Son: I think the fact is not as bad as you said. We have enough water everyday.
     兒子：我認(rèn)為現(xiàn)實(shí)情況并不像你說(shuō)的那么糟糕。我們每天都有充足的水源。
     Mom: The fresh water resource that our mankind can use just accounts for 0.26％ of the gross amount of water resources, 70％ among that water are freezing under the ice cover in the Antarctic Pole and the Arctic Pole. Adding up the glaciers and accumulated snows that are difficult to use, there are 87％ of fresh water resources cannot be used by human beings.
     媽媽?zhuān)喝祟?lèi)目前能夠利用的淡水資源只占全球水資源總量的0.26％，其中70％以上被凍結(jié)在南極和北極的冰蓋中，加上難以利用的高山冰川和永凍積雪，有87％的淡水資源難以被人類(lèi)利用。
     Son: It sounds very serious.
     兒子：聽(tīng)上去真的很?chē)?yán)重。
     Mom: You should know that many places suffer the water scarcity every year, and people's lives there are severely affected.
     媽媽?zhuān)阂篮芏嗟胤匠Ｄ甓际艿剿牡睦_，人們的生活受到了嚴(yán)重的影響。
     Son: Isn't there any related measurements of those countries to prevent or relieve this phenomenon?
     兒子：難道各國(guó)就沒(méi)有采取相關(guān)措施防止或者減緩這種現(xiàn)象嗎？
     Mom: Of course there are. Many countries set up dams to reserve water resources, and other countries are devoting to the research on sewage water reticulating pump in order to reuse these water resources. In some places that lack of water, the government takes artificial precipitation to relieve the drought.
     媽媽?zhuān)寒?dāng)然有。很多國(guó)家都通過(guò)建筑堤壩來(lái)儲(chǔ)存水資源，還有很多國(guó)家正在致力于研究污水循環(huán)再利用的技術(shù)，使水資源能夠得到重復(fù)利用。在一些降雨稀少的地方，還采取了人工降雨的方法緩解干旱。
     Son: Is there any obvious effects?
     兒子：這些措施效果明顯嗎？
     Mom: There are, but still couldn't meet the social needs for water.
     媽媽?zhuān)河幸欢ǖ男Ч?，但是依然無(wú)法滿足當(dāng)今社會(huì)對(duì)于水的需求量。
     Son: Apart from domestic water, is there any other fields that need water?
     兒子：除了生活用水，還有哪些地方需要水呢？
     Mom: Such as agricultural irrigation, industrial production, aquiculture and hydraulic electrogenerating, etc.
     媽媽?zhuān)罕热甾r(nóng)業(yè)灌溉、工業(yè)生產(chǎn)、水產(chǎn)養(yǎng)殖、水力發(fā)電等等。
     Son: Water is so important for the survival and development of human beings and I'll concern about saving water in the future.
     兒子：水對(duì)于人類(lèi)的生存和發(fā)展太重要了，今后我一定會(huì)注意節(jié)約用水。