Patoka has always been an arid region with little rainfall and no glacial water.

帕塔卡一直是一个干旱地区，很少降雨，没有冰川水的存在。

Hot, arid regions aren't the kind of place people usually farm.

人们通常不会在炎热干旱地区种植作物。

It's a system that's transformed one of the most arid regions in the world into millions of acres of farmland.

这个系统将世界上最干旱的地区之一变成了数百万英亩的农田。

This is a dry and arid region, with unpredictable rainfall.

这是一个干燥干旱的地区，降雨量难以预测。

Indirect potable reuse is the process used in Singapore, and it's become an increasingly common lifeline for arid regions in the US.

“间接饮用循环”是新加坡采用的方法，它也在美国的干燥地区起到愈加重要的作用。

While arid regions may get the same amount of rain, it now comes in torrents, washing away the topsoil.

虽然干旱地区可能会有同样多的雨水，但现在雨水倾盆而下， 冲走了表土。

MAHOWALD: Already, EMIT has taken millions or billions of observations of what's going on in the arid regions in terms of the composition.

EMIT已经对干旱地区的成分进行了数百万乃至数十亿次的观测。

CHINCHAR: Using a device called an imaging spectrometer, EMIT scans the Earth's arid regions to detect different colored soils, creating a mineral map.

借助一种叫做成像光谱仪的设备，EMIT可以扫描地球的干旱地区，以探测不同颜色的土壤，创建一个矿物地图。

The main sources of these mineral dusts are the arid regions of Northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Central Asia.

这些矿尘的主要来源是北非、阿拉伯半岛和中亚的干旱地区。

Desert locust eggs are laid in the damp depths of desert soil, in arid regions stretching from North Africa to South Asia.

沙漠蝗虫卵产在从北非到南亚的干旱地区沙漠土壤潮湿的深处。

In a more arid region, like here in California, a single family can use up to 87,000 gallons a year just to water their lawn and garden.

在像加利福尼亚这样更干旱的地区，一个家庭每年仅用于浇灌草坪和花园的水量可达 87000 加仑。