VOA常速英语2016--知名饮料公司太阳能集装箱净水屋为肯尼亚提供安全饮用水

知名饮料公司太阳能集装箱净水屋为肯尼亚提供安全饮用水

Kajiado gets little rainfall. The Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is 125 miles away from Esther Kume's homestead. The mother of nine has to buy 10 jerry cans of water a day from local businessmen. Even then, she says the water isn't always safe to drink.

卡贾多地区罕有降雨。而肯尼亚首都内罗毕距 埃斯特·克穆的家有125英里。这位9个孩子的妈妈每天都要从当地商贩手中购买10汽油桶的水。她表示即使这样，买来的水饮用起来也不一定安全。

“We have to go as far as 10 kilometers to reach water since there are no rivers around. That's why we are forced to buy water. When we hear of anyone selling water, we have no choice but to buy.”

“这附近没有河流，我们必须到10公里外的地方取水。因此我们不得不从别人手里买水。当有人卖水时，我们别无选择，只好买水。”

AficAqua, in partnership¹ with Coca-Cola and water.org, has been setting up these “ekocenters” around East Africa since 2014 to provide safe drinking water. The centers get water through boreholes. They use solar power and a purification technology called reverse osmosis.

AficAqua自2014年起就与可口可乐公司及water.org开展合作，在东非地区设立太阳能集装箱净水屋提供安全饮用水。这些太阳能集装箱净水屋通过钻井取水。它们使用的是太阳能及逆渗透的净化技术。

Cabinet Secretary for Water and Irrigation, Eugene Wamalwa, says misappropriation of funds in his ministry² has kept so many rural Kenyans off the state water grid³.

水利灌溉部内阁大臣尤金·瓦玛拉瓦表示这个部门的挪用公款现象已造成肯尼亚很多偏远地区无法享受到国家水利系统的便利。

“I have told them in no uncertain terms there will be no sacred cows and coming into a ministry that was one of those affected⁴ by the clean-up his excellency the president led, we have said we are not going to go back to the ways of the past, the ways of corruption⁵.”

“我直截了当地告诉他们没有不能处理的人或事情，在总统的领导下水利灌溉部已经进行了清理，不会再像过去一样出现贪污腐败现象。

The county digs public boreholes but residents must still trek⁶ many kilometers to reach them. This newly opened ekocenter has 15 employees who will deliver safe water by improvised⁷ motorbikes, known as tuk-tuks. The 20-liter cans sell for 50 cents.

这个地区有公共钻井，但居民要长途跋涉几公里才能到达。而新设立的太阳能集装箱净水屋有15名员工负责运送安全饮用水，他们用名为嘟嘟车的简易摩托为居民送水。20升的水售价50美分。

“The challenge of the cost to the customer is actually not very high because what we do, they can pay this into installments⁸. We don't tell them that you have to do it that particular day. You can do it in installments until the other time you are refilling.”

“这样的价格对消费者而言并不是很高，因为他们可以分期付款。我们不会要求他们在当天就把钱交完。只要在下次送水时分期付完就可以。"

This new ekocenter hopes to serve around 3,000 residents and plans are underway to replicate⁹ the initiative in other areas.

这种新设立的太阳能集装箱净水屋将为附近的3000名居民提供饮用水，而且其他地区也将开展这个项目。

1 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

4 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

5 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

6 trek   

vi.作长途艰辛的旅行；n.长途艰苦的旅行

参考例句：

• We often go pony-trek in the summer.夏季我们经常骑马旅行。
• It took us the whole day to trek across the rocky terrain.我们花了一整天的时间艰难地穿过那片遍布岩石的地带。

7 improvised   

a.即席而作的,即兴的

参考例句：

• He improvised a song about the football team's victory. 他即席创作了一首足球队胜利之歌。
• We improvised a tent out of two blankets and some long poles. 我们用两条毛毯和几根长竿搭成一个临时帐蓬。

8 installments   

部分( installment的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The first two installments were pretty close together in 1980. 第一次和节二次提款隔得很近，都是在1980年提的。
• You have an installments sales contract. 你已经订立了一份分期付款的买卖契约了。

9 replicate   

v.折叠，复制，模写；n.同样的样品；adj.转折的

参考例句：

• The DNA of chromatin must replicate before cell division.染色质DNA在细胞分裂之前必须复制。
• It is also easy to replicate,as the next subsection explains.就像下一个小节详细说明的那样，它还可以被轻易的复制。