Translation. (英译汉)1)By this time next year, some 1.75million people will have died before their time for the simple reason that they cannot get access to safe drinking water.
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This is the total number of people who suffer from various diseases that the world Health Organization attributes to unsafe drinking supplies.
United Nations (UN) officials had expected that this week these avoidable deaths would become the focus of the world’s news agencies, through the report of the 3rd World Water Forum in Japan.
If action isn’t taken, as many as 7 million people in 60 countries could face water shortage by 2050.
In large part, the answer lies in the development and large-scale application of relatively simple technologies.