广播电视英语短句 第 307 课：水泵项目-4

Uttar Pradesh has three treadle pump manufacturers and more than seventy-three thousand pumps. 印度乌塔帮连区有三个踏板水泵制造厂和多余七万三千台水泵

Acumen reported that families using them ate more vegetables, because they were able to grow more to eat and to sell. 据纽约商业报道，利用水泵，农民吃到了更多的蔬菜，因为他们能够生长更多并且还可以卖。

Many of these families also drank more milk, because they bought a cow with their added earnings. 许多农家也能喝上更多的牛奶，他们可以用额外的钱买头奶牛。

Men with treadle pumps often no longer have to leave the farm to seek extra work in cities. 有踏板水泵的男人也不用再离开农田去城市寻找额外的收入。

The pumps can also improve education. 水泵也能改善教育。