(单词翻译:单击)
“We get water from this spring, utilize what we have in home wells,” Suleiman says, wiping his brow from the noon sun.
“我们会从这个泉水里取水，利用我们家里水井里的水，”苏莱曼边说边擦着额头，避免被中午的阳光晒着。
“We have to make the most of each water source we have.”
“我们必须充分利用我们拥有的每一种水源。”
Yet this year has been particularly hard; Jordan’s Ministry of Water and Irrigation described 2022 as “the most difficult year” yet.
然而，今年尤其艰难; 约旦水利灌溉部称2022年是“最艰难的一年”。
A shift in weather patterns means Jordan is witnessing a slight decline in rainfall.
天气模式的转变意味着约旦的降雨量略有下降。
The rainfall it now receives occurs in intense, shorter time periods in concentrated areas, leaving its network of dams struggling to catch the torrential runoff.
现在接收到的降雨出现在集中地区，强度大、时间段较短，使得大坝网络难以聚集倾泻而下的雨流。
The dams are dry or nearing dry; green patches of earth mark where once mighty reservoirs stood.
水坝已经干涸或接近干涸; 一片片绿色的土地曾矗立着巨大的水库。
Plans to desalinate seawater at Aqaba, the nation’s only port, are two decades off at best and are costly due to the immense energy needed to pump the water 200 miles through hilly topography to Amman, where 40% of the population lives.
在该国唯一的港口亚喀巴进行海水淡化的计划最多也要二十年才能完成，而且成本高昂，因为要将海水从200英里外的丘陵地带抽出并运送到安曼(40%的人口居住在那里)需要花费巨大的精力。
With the capital getting priority for dam and aquifer water, towns and villages north and south of Amman bear the brunt of shortages – often going months without fresh supplies as summer demand spikes.
首都获得了大坝和蓄水层用水的优先权，而安曼北部和南部的城镇和村庄都遭受了用水短缺的冲击——在夏季用水需求激增时，往往几个月都没有新的供应。
Um Mohamed, a widowed mother of four in Bayt Idis, a hilly, tree-dotted village in northern Jordan, heads one of thousands of households going without state-supplied water for the summer.
四个孩子的寡母乌姆·穆罕默德住在约旦北部的贝特伊迪斯村，这是一个重峦叠嶂、树木稀少的村庄，她是这个夏天没有得到国家供水的数千户人家中的一员。
This day she purchased from a licensed private well 3 cubic meters (792.5 gallons) for $21 – enough for her family’s weekly consumption, but taking 15% of her monthly income.
这一天，她花21美元从一个有执照的私人水井那里买了3立方米(792.5加仑)水——足够她的家庭消耗一周，但却要花掉她每月收入的15%。
She will try to make it last one month.
她每个月试图用尽最后一滴水。
Like many, she is sticking to tried-and-true methods to stretch out each drop.
和许多人一样，她坚持使用可靠的方法来延长每一滴水的使用时间。
She does the dishes in a single bucket of water placed in the sink, careful not to splash out of the bucket.
她把一桶水放在水槽里洗碗，小心翼翼地不溅出桶外。
Once she soaps and rinses the pots, dishes, and silverware, she pours the food-clouded water onto a few of her plants, watering in a rotation.
一旦她打了肥皂，将锅具、盘子和镀银餐具上的肥皂洗掉，她就会把沾有食物的水倒在几株植物上，轮流浇灌。
Showers are timed and scheduled.
淋浴是定时的。
Laundry is hand-washed in a large plastic basin utilizing the same water.
洗衣是在一个大塑料盆里用同样的水手洗的。
Her backyard is dotted with jugs and buckets filled with water from her purchase; they will be used to water the plants and wash the floors over the next two weeks.
她的后院零星地放着水壶和水桶，里面装满了她买来的水; 在接下来的两个星期里，这些水将被用来给植物浇水和洗地板。
“We have entire summers where we don’t get water from authorities, so we have to rely on ourselves,” she says.
她说:“我们整个夏天都没有从官方机构获得水，所以我们必须依靠自己。”
“If we don’t manage what we consume, then we consume ourselves.”
“如果我们无法获得购买的水，那么我们就只能购买自己的水。”
