英语词汇“water war”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

water war n. a war or other conflict fought over the ownership or use of water supplies.

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1835 London Rev. Apr. 155 The water-war with Brazil was a serious evil, not so much by checking commerce, as by fostering a spirit of piracy and wholesale immorality.

1911 Ann. Publ. Hist. Soc. S. Calif. 8 151 In the olden days of Mexican domination the waters of the rivers had been granted to the abutting ranchos... Water wars were not uncommon.

1976 Newsweek (Nexis) 16 Aug. 15 Jordan's King Hussein is moving to renew the ‘water war’ with Israel by reviving a long-standing plan to divert more of the Yarmuk River into the East Ghor irrigation canal.

2007 R. Solnit Storming Gates of Paradise (2008) iii. 131 The water war between Los Angeles and the Owens Valley, immortalized in Roman Polanski's movie Chinatown.

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