These higher temperatures are rapidly increasing the rates of evaporation throughout the waters of the basin.

气温升高使整个盆地水域的蒸发率迅速增加。

The Red Sea: that great lake so famous in biblical traditions, seldom replenished by rains, fed by no important rivers, continually drained by a high rate of evaporation, its water level dropping a meter and a half every year!

红海是《圣经》传说中的名湖，下雨也不凉爽，又没有一条大河流入，过度的蒸发使水量不断消失，平均每年有一米半厚的水面损失呢！