Water authorities are turning to technology to crack down on excessive water use.

水务当局正在求助于技术，以减少过度用水。

The words " water" , " authority" and " fighting" have a T in the middle.

像单词" 水" 、" 权威" 和" 战斗" ， 他们当中都有个字母T。

The new company replaced three regional water authorities which had previously been government controlled.

该公司取代了政府控制的三个地区水务当局。

Oscar Cristi was recently appointed head of Chile's water authority.

Oscar Cristi 最近被任命为智利水务局局长。

Today, that interest is paid by the present-day regional water authority.

如今，该利息由当前的地区水务局支付。

Environmental officials act on requests for permits of brine, but the water authority manages freshwater pumping.

环境官员根据盐水许可证的请求采取行动，但水务局负责管理淡水抽取。

There was actually a local water authority back in the 1600s, and they needed funds to replace the dike.

实际上早在 1600 年代就有了当地的水务局，他们需要资金来更换堤坝。

Roy Leysner is with Waternet, part of the local water authority that is paying for the project with the City of Amsterdam.

罗伊·莱斯纳就职于地方水务局下属的Waternet，该部门与阿姆斯特丹市政府一同为此项目出资。

Istanbul water authorities say they are determined to avoid water cuts and looking for early rain, but acknowledge they face a growing water shortage.

伊斯坦布尔水务当局表示，他们决心避免停水，并期待早雨，但承认他们面临着日益严重的水资源短缺。

And back in the 1600s, the water authority issued a bunch of these bonds to come up with the cash it needed.

早在 1600 年代，水务局就发行了大量此类债券来筹集所需的现金。

As well as their medals, both winners would receive a night's stay in a swanky hotel, said city water authority Eau de Paris, which sponsored the event.

活动主办方巴黎水利局表示，两人还将获得一晚豪华酒店体验权。

The head of the water authority in Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo says if a prolonged drought continues the city may have to resort to adjusted water rationing plan.

巴西最大城市圣保罗供水当局负责人称，如果旷日持久的干旱继续下去，该市可能必须调整水定量供给计划了。

This loophole means that the Southern Nevada water authority will usually draw around 445,000 acre-feet of water from Lake Mead during a normal year, or about 40% more than they're technically allotted for.

这个漏洞意味着南内华达水务局在正常年份通常会从密德湖抽取约 44.5 万英亩-英尺的水，比严格被分配到的水量多出约 40%。

But there is a twist when it comes to the bond that this Dutch water authority issued in 1624. It didn't have an expiration date, so it's what's called a perpetual bond.

但荷兰水务局于 1624 年发行的债券却有一个不同之处。它没有到期日，所以这就是所谓的永续债券。

California water authorities are already calling for a 35% reduction in usage across the system, and with so little water that's going to be available, it's also expected that some farmland will most likely have to be entirely abandoned.

加州水务局已经呼吁将整个系统的用水量减少 35%，由于可用的水太少，预计一些农田很可能不得不完全放弃。

After another 15 years of droughts and mandatory water restrictions, the Northern Californians changed their minds and asked their water authority to look into getting the poop-water plant – I mean, the Pure-New-Sparkly-Clean-Fun-Water facility – running again.

在又经历了 15 年的干旱和强制性限水之后，北加州人改变了主意， 要求他们的水务部门考虑让粪便水厂——我的意思是， Pure-New-Sparkly-Clean-Fun-Water 设施——运行再次。

The Southern Nevada water authority believes that these simple landscaping measures favoring sustainable desert landscaping over non-functional grass will save around nine and a half billion gallons of water a year, which is nearly 10% of Las Vegas's total water supply.

南内华达州水务局认为，这些倾向于可持续沙漠景观而非非功能性草地的简单景观设计措施，每年将节省约 95 亿加仑的水，这几乎是拉斯维加斯总供水量的 10%。