广播电视英语短句 第 72 课：减少农业用水量-1

Scientists are working to develop crop plants that can reduce the amount of water used for agriculture. 科学家们正从事培育农作物的研究，这种农作物能够减少农业用水量。

Almost sixty percent of the world's freshwater withdrawals from rivers, lakes and other water resources go toward irrigating fields. 来自河、湖和其他水源的世界淡水排水量的60%都流向了灌溉用的农田。

Scientists are using biotechnology as well as traditional breeding methods to develop water-saving crops to feed a growing world. 科学家不但使用传统的育种方法，也正使用生物技术来培育节水的农作物，以此供给日益增长的世界需求。

Thomas "Tommy" Carter is a plant scientist in North Carolina. 托马斯“汤米”卡特是北卡罗来纳州的一位植物科学家。

He works for the Agricultural Research Service in the United States Department of Agriculture. 在美国农业部农业研究服务局工作。