外国人最想和你聊的时事话题：水荒

     There was a famine of water in this locality.
     这地方有过水荒。
     If we could learn to get portable water from sea water, we would be sure of never having a water shortage.
     假如我们能从海水中提取可饮用水，我们将确信不会闹水荒。
     Only if we take steps to deal with this problem now can we avoid a serious worldwide water shortage in the future.
     只有我们现在就采取措施来解决这个问题，我们才有可能在将来避免一场全世界性的严重水荒。
     During the famine of water, everyone looked forward to a heavy rain.
     水荒期间，大家都盼望能下一场大雨。
     In South Asia, the Himalayan glaciers could retreat causing water scarcity.
     在南亚，喜马拉雅山冰河的倒退造成了水荒。
     Shanghai will face an increasing water shortage disaster.
     上海市将面临日益严峻的水荒灾害。
     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罗纳表示，由于遭遇有史以来最严重的干旱，该市目前处于水荒的边缘。
     The focus of the first World Water Day has been on a different aspect of freshwater sustainability, including sanitation and water scarcity.
     世界水日的主题集中在淡水资源可持续利用的不同方面，包括水资源清洁状况以及水荒。
     It is said by the United Nation that until 2025, 30％ of the countries will face to "water scarcity".
     联合国称到2025年，30％的国家将面临"水荒"。
     What's more startling then water scarcity is our continuously crude waste and pollution of our traits of life without restriction.
     比水荒更触目惊心的是，我们仍在毫无节制地、粗暴地浪费和污染我们的生命之源。
     Because of water scarcity, there are 150 billion agricultural losses each year.
     因为缺水，每年农业有1500亿元的损失。
     China is a country that suffers water scarcity.
     中国是一个缺水的国家。
     While the water scarcity in Northern part is an increasingly worrying issue, the situation of Southern part is also pessimistic.
     如果说北方缺水日益严重令人忧心，南方的状况也并不乐观。
     The situation of water scarcity of Beijing cannot be ignored.
     北京水资源匮乏的状态不容忽视。
     The sharp reduction of agriculture water supply poses an increasingly big threat to the world food safety.
     农业用水供给的急剧减少对世界粮食安全构成越来越大的威胁。
     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.
     随着河流的干涸和地下蓄水层的枯竭，日趋严重的缺水将急剧增加中国的粮食进口。
Part 3　Let's Talk！　开始交流吧！
     Mom: Jimmy?
     妈妈：吉米？
     Son: Yes, mom. What's going on?
     儿子：是的，妈妈。怎么啦？
     Mom: I've told you for several times that don't keep the tap open when you leave.
     妈妈：我已经和你说过很多次了，当你离开的时候不要让水龙头一直开着。
     Son: I answered a telephone and forget to close the tap.
     儿子：我刚刚接了一个电话，就忘记关水龙头了。
     Mom: You always find excuses, don't you kwon that our country is short of water?
     妈妈：你总是找借口，难道你不知道我们国家是一个缺水的国家吗？
     Son: I think the fact is not as bad as you said. We have enough water everyday.
     儿子：我认为现实情况并不像你说的那么糟糕。我们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.
     妈妈：人类目前能够利用的淡水资源只占全球水资源总量的0.26％，其中70％以上被冻结在南极和北极的冰盖中，加上难以利用的高山冰川和永冻积雪，有87％的淡水资源难以被人类利用。
     Son: It sounds very serious.
     儿子：听上去真的很严重。
     Mom: You should know that many places suffer the water scarcity every year, and people's lives there are severely affected.
     妈妈：要知道很多地方常年都受到水荒的困扰，人们的生活受到了严重的影响。
     Son: Isn't there any related measurements of those countries to prevent or relieve this phenomenon?
     儿子：难道各国就没有采取相关措施防止或者减缓这种现象吗？
     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.
     妈妈：当然有。很多国家都通过建筑堤坝来储存水资源，还有很多国家正在致力于研究污水循环再利用的技术，使水资源能够得到重复利用。在一些降雨稀少的地方，还采取了人工降雨的方法缓解干旱。
     Son: Is there any obvious effects?
     儿子：这些措施效果明显吗？
     Mom: There are, but still couldn't meet the social needs for water.
     妈妈：有一定的效果，但是依然无法满足当今社会对于水的需求量。
     Son: Apart from domestic water, is there any other fields that need water?
     儿子：除了生活用水，还有哪些地方需要水呢？
     Mom: Such as agricultural irrigation, industrial production, aquiculture and hydraulic electrogenerating, etc.
     妈妈：比如农业灌溉、工业生产、水产养殖、水力发电等等。
     Son: Water is so important for the survival and development of human beings and I'll concern about saving water in the future.
     儿子：水对于人类的生存和发展太重要了，今后我一定会注意节约用水。