1·Tens of millions of people have been forced to move from their homes—often with little warning or compensation—to make way for the reservoirs behind dams.
数千万人被迫离开家园——通常没有任何预先通知或补偿——只为给水坝后面的水库腾地方。
2·A shorter drought in which they exhausted their stored food supplies might already have gotten them in deep trouble, because growing crops required rain rather than reservoirs.
一场持续时间较短的干旱耗尽了他们的粮食储备，而这可能已经让他们陷入了困境，因为种植农作物需要降雨，而不是水库。
3·Recent studies of ancient Maya water management have found that the urban architecture of some cities was used to divert rainfall runoff into gravity-fed systems of interconnected reservoirs.
最近对古玛雅水资源管理的研究发现，一些城市的城市建筑被用来分流降雨径流到相互连接的水库的重力补给系统中。
4·Reservoirs are drying up and farmers have begun to leave their land in search of water.
水库正在干涸，农民开始离开田地去寻找水源。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·Next, it goes into reservoirs in Garden City.
其次，它在花园城市去水库。