Name: 【TED】拉娜-馬紮赫：3種節約用水的貼心方法（3種節約用水的貼心方法|拉娜-馬紮赫）。 (【TED】Lana Mazahreh: 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water (3 thoughtful ways to conserve water | Lana Mazahreh))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:30:29.000Z
Duration: 11 min 23 s

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Marssi Draw

情態副詞

the mayor of Cape Town officially declared Cape Town a local disaster,

as it had less than four months left of usable water.

開普敦的市長正式宣佈 開普敦的地方性災難：

Residents were restricted to 100 liters of water per person, per day.

當地可用的水只剩下 不到四個月的存量。

居民被限制每人每天 只能使用一百公升的水。

and probably flush the toilet about five times.

and you definitely didn't water your plants.

You, unfortunately, didn't wash your hands after those five toilet flushes.

不幸的是，五次沖完馬桶之後 你都沒有洗手。

The mayor described this as that it means

I can share two things about my second home with you.

First: Cape Town hasn't run out of water just yet.

關於我的第二個家， 我可以與各位分享兩件事。

第一：開普頓還沒有把水用盡。

the hundred-liter limit dropped to 87 liters.

The mayor defined the city's new normal as one of permanent drought.

一百公升的限制被減到八十七公升。

市長把該市的新常態 定義為永久的乾旱。

what's happening in Cape Town is pretty much coming to many other cities

發生在開普頓的事， 也即將襲擊世界上許多

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,

excluding countries that we don't have data for,

less than five percent of the world's population

除了我們沒有資料的國家之外，

is living in a country that has more water today than it did 20 years ago.

Everyone else is living in a country that has less water today.

住在目前可用水量 比二十年前還多的國家中。

And nearly one out of three are living in a country

所有其他人居住的國家， 現今的可用水量都比較少。

接近三分之一的人所居住的國家

a water-poor country that has experienced absolute water scarcity since 1973.

該國的水資源很缺乏，從 1973 年 開始就在經歷絕對的水資源短缺。

only 10 countries in the world have less water than Jordan.

So dealing with a lack of water is quite ingrained in my soul.

仍然只有十個國家的 可用水比約旦還少。

As soon as I was old enough to learn how to write my name,

處理缺水問題可說是 深植在我的靈魂中。

I also learned that I need to conserve water.

My parents would constantly remind my siblings and I to close the tap

我就已經學到我要懂得省水了。

我父母會經常提醒我和我的手足，

We used to fill balloons with flour instead of water when we played.

在刷牙的時候要把水龍頭關好，

我們以前在玩耍時， 是把氣球裝滿麵粉而不是水。

when my friends and I were dared to do the Ice Bucket Challenge,

我和我朋友鼓起勇氣做冰桶挑戰時，

And you might think that, you know, that's easy,

我向你們保證， 沙子會鑽進任何地方，

as I played with flour balloons as a child,

但當我小時候在玩麵粉氣球時，

and as I poured sand on my head as an adult,

is that some of the techniques that seem second nature to me

從頭上倒下去時，可能並不了解，

對我以及其他住在乾旱國家的人而言

might help us all address what is fast becoming a global crisis.

可能可以協助我們所有人處理 這個正在快速擴展到全球的危機。

and how they survived and even thrived despite their water crisis.

從水資源缺乏國家學到的三課，

以及它們如何存活， 甚至在水資源危機之下還能繁榮。

tell people how much water they really have.

告訴人們他們真正有多少水資源。

pretending that since water is coming out of the tap now,

假裝既然現在還有水從水龍頭出來，

But some smart, drought-affected countries

但，一些受到乾旱影響的聰明國家

to make sure their citizens, their communities and their companies

已經採用了簡單、創新的手段，

來確保它們的公民、 它們的社區、它們的公司

When I was in Cape Town earlier this year,

I saw this electronic billboard on the freeway,

indicating how much water the city had left.

我在高速公路上看到電子告示板，

This is an idea they may well have borrowed from Australia

上面顯示出該城市還剩多少水。

when it faced one of the worst droughts of the country's history

這個點子很可能是向澳洲學的，

當時澳洲正面臨該國 史上最嚴重的乾旱之一，

Water levels in Melbourne dropped to a very low capacity

It didn't plead with them not to use water.

They used electronic billboards to flash available levels of water

他們用電子告示板來 迅速傳遞剩水量資訊

They were honestly telling people how much water they really have,

and letting them take responsibility for themselves.

他們很誠實地告訴人民 他們真正還有多少水可以用，

By the end of the drought, this created such a sense of urgency

到乾旱末期，這方式創造出了急迫感

Nearly one out of three citizens in Melbourne had invested

in installing rainwater holding tanks for their own households.

墨爾本幾乎三分之一的市民都自費

Actions that citizens took didn't stop at installing those tanks.

安裝雨水蓄水池 供他們自己的家庭使用。

市民所採取的行動， 並不僅止於安裝蓄水池。

they were able to do something even more impactful.

他們還能夠做出更有影響的事情。

Melbourne wanted people to spend less water in their homes.

And one way to do that is to spend less time in the shower.

墨爾本希望人民在家中能少用點水。

However, interviews revealed that some people, women in particular,

其中一種做法，就是縮短淋浴時間。

然而，訪談顯示， 有些人，特別是女性，

【TED】拉娜-馬紮赫：3種節約用水的貼心方法（3種節約用水的貼心方法|拉娜-馬紮赫）。 (【TED】Lana Mazahreh: 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water (3 thoughtful ways to conserve water | Lana Mazahreh))

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