1．The Maya believed natural wells, such as the Xkeken cenote in Mexico's Yucatán, led to the underworld.

玛雅人认为世上存在天然井，如墨西哥尤卡坦的Xkeken灰岩洞就一直通向地下世界。

2．A wealth of water—up to 1.6 million gallons a second—pours over Iguaçu Falls on the border of Brazil and Argentina.

水的财富——多达每秒1.6百万加仑——倾泻于巴西及阿根廷边界的伊瓜苏瀑布。

3．A 90-foot-high waterfall spills beneath the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. Artist Olafur Eliasson installed the cascade in 2008 to celebrate the "physicality of water."

纽约市布鲁克林大桥下悬挂着一条90英尺高的瀑布。艺术家奥拉维·埃利亚松于2008年在此设置了这个小型瀑布以庆祝“水的形体”。

4．After six years of drought, measuring sticks are useless at the Ziglab Dam in Jordan, built to catch water flowing west into the Jordan River for irrigation. Its reservoir has shrunk to a fifth of capacity and hasn't filled since 2003, forcing Jordan to ration water.

经过六年的干旱，量尺在约旦Ziglab大坝已经派不上用场了，该大坝曾用于存储向西流入约旦河的水以用来灌溉。它的水库存水量已缩减到五分之一的蓄水力，自2003年以来就停止了蓄水，迫使约旦不得不采用配给水。

5．The pallid sturgeon, one of a group of fish that has endured since dinosaur times, has now lost much of its habitat along the Missouri River. Its mustache-like barbels sense chemical traces of its prey.

白鲟鱼，一种自恐龙时代就存在的鱼类，现在已经失去了它们在密苏里河沿岸的大部分栖息地了。它们胡子似的触须可以感觉到猎物的化学痕迹。

6．India's holiest river, the Ganges, is scribbled with light from floating oil lamps during the Ganga Dussehra festival in Haridwar. Hindus near death often bathe in the river; some are later cremated beside it and have their ashes scattered on its waters.

印度的最神圣的河，恒河，它的水面在Haridwar十胜节期间，被浮游灯的光绘出潦草的画面。印度教徒临死前经常在河里洗澡；有的则在河边被火化，他们的骨灰也将被撒入恒河水。

7．Severed from the edge of Antarctica, this iceberg might float for years as it melts and releases its store of fresh water into the sea. The water molecules will eventually evaporate, condense, and recycle back to Earth as precipitation.

从南极边缘断裂出来的这座冰山可能已飘浮了多年，当它融化时将释放存储的淡水汇入大海。水分子最终会蒸发，汇聚并以降水的形式循环到地球。

8．As developments such as Discovery Bay increase in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, so does the flood hazard. More than a million people now live behind delta levees.

由于诸如愉景湾在圣华三角洲的加速发展，加剧了洪水危害。现在，逾百万人生活三角洲防洪堤之后。

9．Southwestern farmers have long shared community-operated waterways, or acequias, like the 150-year-old People’s Ditch in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.

西南地区的农民长期共享社区经营的水路或灌溉水渠，比如位于科罗拉多州圣路易斯谷的已有150年历史的“人民水道”。

10．Australia—Brown with sediment loosed by seasonal rains, the King River snakes through coastal mudflats of the Kimberley, a remote northwestern region. In the dry months of May to September, the 76-mile meander is bare.

澳大利亚——与季节性降雨带来的沉积物混合，国王河像蛇一样蜿蜒于金伯利的泥滩上，地处偏远的西北地区。在五月至九月的旱季，76英里长的蜿蜒地带裸露于地表。