| 单词 | water poverty |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater poverty water poverty n. (a) the condition of not having access to sufficient water, or water of an adequate quality, to meet one’s basic needs; (b) (chiefly British) the condition of being unable to afford to pay one’s water bills. ΚΠ 1882 Frank Leslie's Pop. Monthly Jan. 10/2 Liverpool, without increasing its supply, has, at a trifling expense, risen from a state of water-poverty to that of redundant wealth. 1921 I. Bowman New World xxv. 422 Water poverty is the great stumbling block to agricultural development. 1988 Guardian 29 Nov. 22/6 We will see even more people unable to met [sic] the cost of water... Will ‘water poverty’ be to the 1990s what fuel poverty was to the 1980s? 1997 G. Seddon Landprints (1998) 110 Centuries of water-riches make it hard to grasp our water-poverty and its implications. 2009 Daily Tel. 22 July 7/7 Supporting those in water poverty via the public purse means increasing taxes for all. < as lemmas |
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