Vocabulary

 

1. withdrawal изъятие, отбор (воды)

2. sustain поддерживать, подкреплять

3. It takes… Необходимо…, Требуется…

4. satisfy отвечать (требованиям); удовлетворять

5. considerable значительный

6. compare сравнивать

7. inhabit населять

8. refineries очистные сооружения

9. solvent растворитель

10. power generation производство электроэнергии

11. derive получать, извлекать

12. altitude высота (altitudes – возвышенность)

13. creation создание

14. artificial искусственный

15. due to из-за, благодаря

16. overheating перегрев

17. large scale крупномасштабный

18. discharge спуск, сток

19. untreated water необработанная (неочищенная) вода

20. purification techniques технологии очистки

 

Exercises

 

Guess the meaning of the words.

 

irrigation, to convert, dietary, to produce, canal, to circle, globe, industrial, hydroelectric, thermoelectric, chemical processes, energy, turbine, generator, to condense, natural, pressurized, machinery

 

2. Translate the following word combinations:

 

It is estimated; worldwide water use; irrigation withdrawals; converted from liquid to vapour; daily dietary need; a canal ten metres deep; 180 times; hydroelectric dams; thermoelectric power plants; ore and oil refineries;renewable power generation; force of water flowing downhill; a turbine connected to a generator; a low-cost, non-polluting, renewable energy source; pumped-storage hydroelectric plants; due to the larger surface area; much higher water consumption; discharged solutes; laws requiring industrial grey water to be treated

 

Match the word and its synonym.

 

1) to sustain 2) to satisfy 3) considerable 4) to compare 5) to inhabit 6) to derive 7) large scale

a) important, significant b) to correlate, liken c) to meet d) to draw, extract e) of high degree f) to live, occupy g) to keep up, maintain