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 I have a dancing horse. It dances, a horse, tell him. Would you buy it? -No, I do not want to buy a dancing horse. Producing the cotton for a single T-shirt can require more than 2,500 liters of water. So huge amounts of water are pumped out of the Nile here and flooded over tens of thousands of fields. It's a hugely inefficient1 and untargetted way of irrigating2 crops, but many farmers believe they have a historic3, god-given right of limited resource. -What would you say to an Ethiopian farmer, who says the water is the Nile of mine.

-This is unfair and injustice4. I would say this is an injustice. What can one do about his food? He blocks my food, and the food of my young children and the people. God won't let them, because Egypt glory be to god is the Mother of the Nile. Egypt is the Mother of the Nile, glory to be god. It's hard to talk to a farmer here, who says poor and this water is god-given right. And I've also spoken to the people in the south, south of Egypt, who say we're even poorer. We need this water as well. Somehow, these countries are going to have to sit down and talk and discuss and agree how they use this incredibly vital precious...

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1 inefficient c76xm     
adj.效率低的，无效的
参考例句：
  • The inefficient operation cost the firm a lot of money.低效率的运作使该公司损失了许多钱。
  • Their communication systems are inefficient in the extreme.他们的通讯系统效率非常差。
2 irrigating 0ed70a12fb6b41d2ac997bf4b7f6026b     
灌溉( irrigate的现在分词 )； 冲洗（伤口）
参考例句：
  • Derrick and I have been laying out the system of irrigating ditches. 德里克跟我在一起修建那个灌溉网。
  • He had been in command at the irrigating ditch the day before. 上一天，在灌溉渠边，是他担任指挥的。
3 historic AcNxw     
adj.历史上著名的，具有历史意义的
参考例句：
  • This is a historic occasion.这是具有重大历史意义的时刻。
  • We are living in a great historic era.我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代。
4 injustice O45yL     
n.非正义，不公正，不公平，侵犯（别人的）权利
参考例句：
  • They complained of injustice in the way they had been treated.他们抱怨受到不公平的对待。
  • All his life he has been struggling against injustice.他一生都在与不公正现象作斗争。

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