Bottled water problems 2

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For most Chinese who love drinking hot tea, bottled water is either a convenience or a necessity. Often, they have no choice but to turn to bottle water, since tap water sources have been contaminated. Water is in short supply in some 110 urban areas in China.

 

It is is not surprising that bottled water consumption in China more than dobled between 2000 and 2005. Major bottled water companies now employ hundreds of thousands of technicians, workers and salespeople.

 

Howver, as China upgrades its drinking water standards and steps up efforts to clean up rivers and lakes, it should also put rules on the excessive growth in the bottled water business.

 

After all, the manufacture and shipping of bottled water has a bad impact on the environment and ecology.

 

Under extraction of natural or spring water to produce bottled water threatens local streams and groundwater. Plastic bottles, most of them not recycled, created unnatural waste.

 

 

短语学习

 

drink hot tea 喝热茶

 

have no choice but to .. 别无选择只能……

 

turn to 转向

 

tap water 自来水

 

water source is contaminated 水源被污染

 

in short supply 供应短缺

 

urban area 城市地区

 

hundreds of thousands of  数十万

 

upgrade standard 更新标准

 

step up effort 加紧努力

 

clean up rivers 清洁河流

 

put rules on ... 对……制定法规

 

excessive growth 过度增长

 

have a bad impact on ... 对……有不利的影响

 

environment and ecology 环境和生态

 

spring water 泉水

 

 

单词学习

 

consumption n. 消耗量；消耗

 

convenience n. 便利，方便

 

excessive adj. 过多的，极度的

 

source n. 源头，来源

 

threaten v. 威胁

 

extraction n. 提炼

 

spring n. 泉

 

groundwater n. 地下水

 

business n. 商业

 

necessity n. 需要，必需

 

choice n. 选择

 

tap n. 水龙头

 

contaminate v. 弄脏，污染

 

employ v. 使用，利用，雇用

 

technician n. 技术员， 技师

 

upgrade v. 是升级，提升

 

standard n. 标准

 

manufacture n. （大量）制造

 

ecology n. 生态学

 

stream n. 溪，川

 

recycle v. 使再循环，在利用

 

plastic adj. 塑料的

 

urban adj. 城市的

 

doubt v. 怀疑

 

salesperson n. 销售人员

 

effort n. 努力