water use

基本解释

Projections for water use in agriculture will be reviewed.
还将审议农业水资源使用状况的预测。
But a new study at one hospital finds that these devices may not always be worth the savings in water use.
但最近在一所医院进行一项研究发现，用这种水龙头节约水可能得不偿失。
They ask tough questions regarding cost, return on investment, energy and water use, and potential crop yields.
他们咨询了成本、投资回报、能源和水的利用以及收获潜力等尖锐的问题。

The group has simpler ideas -- like reducing water use at schools and other buildings in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.
Well, they'll want to take baths and that'll use up hot water," They said.
他们要洗澡，就会用掉很多热水，她们说。
耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选
The ideal audience for the book," he says "should be the preachers, the gentry, the lawyers, men of affairs, who drawing such water as they find from the book can use it," he says, "to sprinkle the same both from the pulpit and from their conversation upon the people."
他还说，像传教士，贵族，律师，当政者,这样的人就更应该读这本书，因为他们有能力,把从书中汲取的思想认识，通过礼拜或与他人的交谈,有效地传播出去“
耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

For example, almost every manufacturer has targets for carbon footprint, waste reduction, water use, etc.
FORBES: Sustainability Standards and Sustainability Creep