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Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

малообеспеченный пресной водой

English translation:

freshwater-deficient

Added to glossary by Alexander Palatash
Jan 10, 2010 21:32
14 yrs ago
Russian term

малообеспеченный пресной водой

Russian to English Social Sciences Environment & Ecology
Донецкая область является одним из самых **малообеспеченных пресной водой** регионов Украины.

Пока склоняюсь к тому, чтобы переделать в "обеспечение Донецкой области пресной водой - самое худшее среди регионов Украины"
TIA
Proposed translations (English)
4 +6 freshwater-deficient
4 +1 undersupplied with fresh water
3 +1 least endowed with fresh water
3 poor in fresh water
4 -2 one of underprovided regions with a fresh water
Change log

Jan 12, 2010 19:30: Alexander Palatash Created KOG entry

Discussion

Gabrielle Leyden Jan 11, 2010:
poorly supplied "One of the most poorly supplied with fresh water regions in Ukraine" or (less dense) "one of the regions in Ukraine with the poorest fresh water supplies" (you can turn "most poorly supplied" into "least well supplied" without changing the meaning much).
stasbetman (asker) Jan 10, 2010:
больше контекста Донецкая область является одним из самых малообеспеченных пресной водой регионов Украины. Исторически сложилось так, что большие запасы полезных ископаемых в Донецком угольном бассейне способствовали бурному развитию промышленности и значительной концентрации населения в регионе. Сформировавшиеся за два столетия в области отрасли промышленности характеризуются значительным водопотреблением. Поэтому в регионе существует острая проблема загрязнения водных ресурсов и связанный с этим дефицит качественных пресных вод для хозяйственно питьевого водоснабжения населения, сельского хозяйства, перерабатывающей промышленности и т.д.

Proposed translations

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Selected

freshwater-deficient

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Example sentence:

The participants will observe conservation of land and ground water resources in the fresh water-deficient area of Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta

Reference:

http://icsbe.uii.ac.id/icsb.php?md=overview&id=T0E9PQ==

Peer comment(s):
agree Judith Hehir : ...one of Ukraine's most freshwater-deficient areas/regions.
3 mins
Thank you Judith.
neutral Alexandra Taggart : "fresh water-deficient area" - not many natural springs, very few rivers and so on.They are plenty in Ukraine.I believe, in this text-a supply for human consumption.
14 mins
It's equally surprising to me. But if they meant drinking water they would say drinking water, I guess. After all, Donetsk Oblast is in the steppe and far from any major rivers. Small rivers tend to dry up in summer.
agree irssy
7 hrs
Спасибо!
agree Farida Vyachkileva
10 hrs
Спасибо!
agree Radwan Rahman
11 hrs
Спасибо!
agree Deep-one
12 hrs
Спасибо!
agree Maria Fokin : the additional context makes the reasons for the deficit very clear :-)
1 day 19 hrs
Спасибо!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Большое всем спасибо за помощь! Извините, что сразу дал мало контекста - думал, что будет достаточно"
+1
9 mins

least endowed with fresh water

Донецкая область является одним из самых **малообеспеченных пресной водой** регионов Украины.

The Donetsk Region is one of the least endowed with fresh water in Ukraine.

Or, spelling it out;

The Donetsk Region is one of the regions in Ukraine least endowed with fresh water.
Peer comment(s):
agree Alex Marshall
2 hrs
Thanks, Alex, but now that the asker has supplied more context, this is not a good suggestion because it's not a question of natural endowment, but of what is available now.
neutral Alexandra Taggart : Not enough rain?"endowed" - a gift from God?
17 hrs
If you were to read before writing, you'd see above that my suggestion was made BEFORE the asker supplied the full context, and now I think it's not so good. But "endowed" is quite alright in cases where fresh water availability is naturally determined.
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+1
1 hr

undersupplied with fresh water

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Peer comment(s):
agree Alexandra Taggart : as common waterpipes supply ( however, it could be difficult to find a single Ukranian who complains that nothing drops from the tap in the kitchen), Should we include shop supplies?
17 hrs
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12 hrs

poor in fresh water

As simple as that:
The Donetsk region is among Ukraine's poorest in fresh water.
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-2
13 mins

one of underprovided regions with a fresh water

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Note added at 35 mins (2010-01-10 22:07:52 GMT)
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I don't know about this "particularly underprovided",the picture is sinister already, everything is so blinking bad there, in Ukraine "самое худшее среди регионов Украины"(!!!).How do you still breath there,Stasbetman?

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Note added at 18 hrs (2010-01-11 15:38:38 GMT)
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"Underprovided" should be the right term. Ukraine is a green country, has National parks and natural reserves, huge (truly wide) rivers and they are many, plenty of rains in summer and plenty of snow in winter.There could not possibly be any water shortages.Here we can think of communications only.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1337585

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Note added at 19 hrs (2010-01-11 17:06:57 GMT)
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"one of the underprovided regions with fresh water" - sorry
Note from asker:
It's quite easy... just sometimes have some difficulties with typing in my hazmat suit:)
Peer comment(s):
disagree Alex Marshall : almost dislocated my jaw reading this. no offense. I mean the word order and the use of articles... You are a native speaker, or so you claim. If you want me to edit your work, the rate is $0.03 a word... English 101: 'What does this have to do with...?'
2 hrs
What has it to do...? You are right.Still, why hould it be the reason for your disagreement?
disagree Gabrielle Leyden : not blinking English, and PS: the verb is "breathe".
14 hrs
Yes, "to breathe"
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