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Plants for the pumping of clean drinking water and sewage are unable to function as a result of the scarcity of electrical power, forcing people to take contaminated, unpurified water directly from rivers, which has led to the spread of epidemics and contagious diseases.
También ha ocasionado la paralización de las estaciones de bombeo de agua potable y de alcantarillado por la escasez de fluido eléctrico, lo que ha hecho que la población se haya visto obligada a utilizar aguas contaminadas de los ríos, sin purificar, propagándose las infecciones y las enfermedades contagiosas.
She said it was good for you to drink unpurified water, even ditch water, as long as animals were drinking from it.
Decía que era bueno beber agua sin purificar, incluso el agua de una zanja, puesto que los animales bebían de allí.
'What of them?' 'The spirits of the dead — with so many bodies left unpurified, neither burned nor buried, surely their lemures have never been put to rest.
—¿Qué pasa con ellos? —Los espíritus de los muertos... Tantos cuerpos sin purificar, ni quemados ni enterrados. Seguramente sus lémures no han alcanzado el descanso.
I am quite sure your father purified his water frequently, but here on the ship, with your hands on the controls, you will have your water unpurified.
Estoy completamente segura de que su padre purificaba su agua con frecuencia; pero aquí, en la nave, usted con sus manos en los controles, beberá el agua sin purificar.
The problem is that frequently it ends up getting dirty again. Or, all the water gets used, and people are too thirsty to wait until more boils, so they end up drinking unpurified water.
El problema es que con frecuencia sucede que se contamina de nuevo o se acaba y la gente está demasiado sedienta para esperar a que se hierva más y se enfríe, entonces terminan bebiendo agua sin purificar.
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