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【Earth&Sky】专家：美国水资源政策该被反思

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Peter Gleick: As a nation we're relatively well-endowed with water. But the problem is that regionally we see growing scarcity. We see [---1---] over water.

You're listening to [---2---] Peter Gleick, head of the Pacific Institute, a water [---3---] . Gleick cites disputes between states over the water they share.

Peter Gleick: For example, between Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, over the Apalachicola-Flint river system, those three states are not in any agreement about how to share the scarce water resources for their growing populations.

[---4---]

Peter Gleick: We see declining ground water levels in many parts of the country where we're overpumping ground water faster than nature naturally recharges it. And that's not sustainable.

Gleick said that one problem is that our water is often managed by many different agencies.

Peter Gleick: We have very uncoordinated federal water policy. It's time to rethink our water policy at the federal level and at the local level in a way that [---5---] of today rather than, frankly, the needs of fifty years ago.

That's our show today celebratingThe Year of Planet Earth. Thanks to the National Science Foundation and US Geological Survey. More at The Year of Planet Earth.org.

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