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Broadcast: August 4, 2003 This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. Safe drinking water has always been rare and valuable. Throughout the world, drinking water has to be stor
听力文本 Recording 19 录音19 A. At the bottom of the system, there is a storage tank, which can hold up to 500 litres of rainwater. The water stored in the tank can be used for general gardening and cleaning. A、在该系统底部有个贮存水
05Using the Restroom GLOSSARY restroom a public bathroom; a large room with one or more toilets and sinks* Do you know where the mens restroom is? mess disordered; unclean; not organized or neat* Your room is a mess! Please clean it up before your gr
Steve, are you a firefighter, too? Violet asked as they followed him. Yes, he said, wheeling himself through a side door. I used to be on active duty, until I was injured in an accident. Since then I havent been able to walk. So now I work in the off
Rainforests exist because it rains a lot and that makes the forests grow, right? Well, not so fast. What if its not the rain that makes the forestswhat if its the forests that actually generate the rain? Thats the contention of a paper in BioScience
By Melinda Smith Washington 29 October 2007 The World Health Organization says two and a half billion people in developing countries do not have access to simple latrines, and for at least one billion of them, finding safe drinking water is a daily s
DEVELOPMENT REPORT – January 7, 2002: Storing Drinking Water By Gary Garriott This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Safe drinking water has always been rare and valuable. Throughout th
298 mln more rural Chinese to have safe drinking water by 2015 BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- About 298 million more rural residents in China are hopefully to have access to safe drinking water by 2015, according to a water resources official Monday. R
Rainforests exist because it rains a lot and that makes forests grow, right? Well, not so fast. What if its not the rain that makes the forests? What if its the forests that actually generate the rain? That is the contention of a paper in BioScience
At the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting last month, the mayor of Albuquerque, N.M., asked a provocative question: How would his citizens feel if the city bought thousands of ordinary writing pens the kind that cost about $1 each in most stores and
Engineer and inventor Martin Fisher has applied his passion for improving things to the challenge of eliminating poverty in rural Africa. As Maura Farrelly reports, his non-profit organization is transforming the lives of thousands of poor African f
Todd: So Carla, you lived in Africa. Carla: We got married in Africa. Todd: Wow. Carla: And we moved to Nigeria. As I told you before, we got married in Ghana, and we moved to Nigeria. And our kids were born in Nigeria. But I wanna tell you a little
BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The number of people in China's rural areas who lack access to safe drinking water has reduced by 221 million from 2004 to 2010, the vice minister of the country's National Development and Reform Commission said on Wednes
BEIJING, Feb. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The source of cadmium contamination in the Liujiang River had been blocked and tap water in Liuzhou is safe to drink, said environmental officials of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Wednesday. Tap water from Liu
How to Drink More Water (and Why You Should) Water is the driving force of all nature - Leonardo da Vinci Do you want a really simple way to improve your health and productivity? Heres a free and easy way to stay healthy and get more done which doesn
By Paige Kollock New York 17 September 2009 Salva Dut Thirty-four-year-old Salva Dut lives in New York. He was one of Sudan's Lost Boys - one of the many thousands of children orphaned during the country's 20 year civil war. For more than a decade,
Bottled water, including mineral and purified water, has become part of our lives. But now there is a wide variety of conceptual bottled water on the market that is extremely expensive, such as glacier water and bamboo charcoal water. Almost all of t
Todd: So Carla, you lived in Africa. Carla: We got married in Africa. Todd: Wow. Carla: And we moved to Nigeria. As I told you before, we got married in Ghana, and we moved to Nigeria. And our kids were born in Nigeria. But I wanna tell you a little
If you visit upland areas of Britain places like the mountains of Scotland, or Wales, or the Pennine Hills in northern England you will see a lot of sheep. Many of the sheep are in places where there are no walls or hedges to keep them in their field
China is providing much needed water supply to Myanmar, which has been badly hit by drought. The Chinese embassy to Myanmar and local NGOs have organized delivery of a tank containing 33,000 liters of drinking water to southern Yangon, one of the mos