People have figured out how to use water more efficiently, and communities are rethinking their priorities for water use.

人们已经找到了更高效利用水的方法，并且社区正在重新考虑他们用水的优先顺序。

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No matter what steps governments take to provide water more efficiently, they must change their institutional and legal approaches to water use.

无论政府采取什么措施来更有效地提供水，都必须改变对用水相关的制度和法律法规。

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It has been proved that Low Till Farming increases harvests and reduces water use, and this method reduced the need for chemical products because there are fewer unwanted plants.

实践证明，低耕农业提高了作物产量，减少了用水量；而且，由于有害植物变少了，这种农业对化工产品的需求也降低了。

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The group has simpler ideas -- like reducing water use at schools and other buildings in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.

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Well, they'll want to take baths and that'll use up hot water," They said.

他们要洗澡，就会用掉很多热水，她们说。

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The ideal audience for the book," he says "should be the preachers, the gentry, the lawyers, men of affairs, who drawing such water as they find from the book can use it," he says, "to sprinkle the same both from the pulpit and from their conversation upon the people."

他还说，像传教士，贵族，律师，当政者,这样的人就更应该读这本书，因为他们有能力,把从书中汲取的思想认识，通过礼拜或与他人的交谈,有效地传播出去“

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The Water Standard will require firms to measure water use and demonstrate efforts taken to reduce consumption.

BBC: Carbon Trust launches scheme to tackle water waste

For example, almost every manufacturer has targets for carbon footprint, waste reduction, water use, etc.

FORBES: Sustainability Standards and Sustainability Creep

It turns out that frackers are also looking to propane to reduce water use.

FORBES: Can No-Water Fracking Quiet Critics?