VOA常速英语2017--美国助力海地获取安全洁净水源

（单词翻译）

The United States has taken another step to support access to clean water for Haiti's citizens and continue the fight against cholera¹. The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, Water and Sanitation² project supports the United States' and Haiti's shared goal of expanding safe water and sanitation access to vulnerable communities, the most important battlefront in the eradication³ of cholera and other waterborne diseases.

美国再次采取行动，支持海地公民获得洁净水源，支持他们继续抗击霍乱。美国国际开发署(USAID)的供水与公共卫生项目支持美国和海地的共同目标，即扩大脆弱群体获得水和卫生环境的渠道，这也是根除霍乱等水生疾病最重要的一关。

The USAID Water and Sanitation project represents a 41.8 million dollar investment aligned⁴ with the priorities of Haiti's Ministry⁵ of Public Health and the water and sanitation directorate. It aims to improve the health of Haitians, and to build on previous U.S. investments in Haiti. It is the start of a longer-term, more comprehensive approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene⁶ that will strengthen local and national Haitian institutions working in this sector⁷.

该项目共计投资4180万美元，以助力海地卫生部和卫生理事会的首要任务。该项目旨在提升海地人民的健康状况，并以美国此前对海地的投资为基础。这是一个开端，是为了实现更长期、更全面的水源获取，保证卫生环境，这样才会加强致力于此的当地机构和海地全国范围内的机构。

The Project is part of the U.S. Government's Global Water Strategy vision for a water-secure world. It aims to promote sustainable access around the world to safe drinking water and sanitation services, the adoption⁸ of key hygiene behaviors, and the strengthening of water sector governance, financing, and institutions.

该项目是美国政府全球水资源战略愿景的部分进程，其愿景是实现水源安全的世界。该项目旨在促进全球获取可持续安全饮用水、卫生服务、采纳关键卫生行为以及加强水资源治理、筹资和相关机构建设。

Haiti is designated a high-priority country under the United States' Water for the World Act of 2014. That law, which reinforced and refined the implementation⁹ efforts of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005, ensures that water, sanitation, and hygiene programming contributes to long-term, sustainable results.

海地被指定为美国2014世界水项目计划法案的首要对象。该法案加强并改善了参议员保罗 西蒙(Paul Simon)的2015穷人水项目法案，确保水规划和卫生规划为长期可持续的结果做贡献。

This project will focus on increasing access to improved water and sanitation services both in priority cholera “hotspot” communes identified in Haiti's National Mid-Term Plan for the Elimination¹⁰ of Cholera, and in communes recovering from natural disasters such as Hurricane Matthew. It will also engage the private sector in creating solutions for expanding access to water and sanitation services.

该项目将着重促进优质水源和卫生服务的获取，不仅要在海地国家根除霍乱中期计划认定的首要霍乱“热点”市镇开展，还要在刚从马修飓风中喘过气来的市镇开展。该项目也会让私营企业参与谋划解决方案，扩大获取水源和卫生服务的渠道。

The four-year project will be implemented¹¹ by Development Alternatives, Inc., an international non-governmental organization well-known for providing technical and managerial support to social and economic development programs around the world.

这个为期4年的项目将由发展替代能源有限公司执行，该公司是一家国际非政府组织，以为全球的社会和经济发展项目提供技术和管理支持服务而闻名。

The United States is proud to work with its partner, the Government of Haiti, to help provide the Haitian people with an essential for good health – safe and clean water.

美国很骄傲能于海地政府这个伙伴合作，以助力为海地人民提供健康生活的必须品——安全洁净的水源。