governments should price water to reflect its actual value. This means charging a fee for the water itself as well as for the supply costs.
政府还应当用经济和环保方面更可行的方法来供水以保护这一资源。例如,在干旱的热带地区供给灌溉用水最便宜的方法可通过小规模工程进行,如:把雨水聚集到凹地里,然后用水泵送到附近的庄稼地。
Governments should also protect this resource by providing water in more economically and environmentally sound ways. For example, often the cheapest way to provide irrigation (灌溉) water in the dry tropics is through small-scale projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions (凹地) and pumping it to nearby cropland. No matter what steps governments take to provide water more efficiently, they must change their institutional and legal approaches to water use. Rather than spread control among hundreds or even thousands of local, regional, and national agencies that watch various aspects of water use, countries should set up central authorities to coordinate water policy.
无论采取什么步骤更有效地供水,政府必须改变用水的制度和法律。与其把管理权分散到数以百计甚至数以千计的地方、地区和国家机关,不如由政府设立一个中央机关来协调水资源的管理。
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