With a severe shortage of water, the farmers here have to live at the mercy of the weather.

这个地方严重缺水，农民只能靠天吃饭。

A severe water shortage exists in the western plateau provinces.

处于西部高原的几个省份存在着严重的缺水现象。

Teachers are in desperately short supply. / There is a severe/an acute shortage of teachers.

教师奇缺。

Doctors say black and Asian patients are needlessly dying while waiting for organ transplants because of a severe shortage of ethnic minority donors in the UK.

医生称黑人和亚洲病人在等待器官移植的过程中遭受着不必要的死亡，因为英国严重缺乏少数种族器官捐赠者。

How do you keep yourself clean and healthy in conditions of such severe shortage of humidity , let alone in the middle of a dust storm?

如何让自己在这种严重缺少湿气的条件下保持清洁健康呢，更何况在沙尘暴中呢？

In the UK, citizens are rarely exposed to the direct effects of severe water shortage and cannot readily see the links between their purchases and water shortage in other countries.

英国市民很少受到严重水短缺的影响，因此无法容易的理解他们的购买行为和别国水资源短缺的联系。

A World Bank statement said there were growing signs of a severe public health crisis because of a shortage of drinking water and a growing failure of the sewage system.

一份世界银行的声明表示，因为缺乏饮水，更多的污水处理设施失效，严重的公众健康危机日益严峻。

Accordingly, the housing problem in big cities is becoming much more severe. People in the big city are complaining housing shortage and roaring price of the housing.

因此，大城市的住房问题变得越来越严重。大城市的人抱怨住房短缺和飞涨的房价。

Objective To develop a portable air-based water collector used under the conditions of severe water shortage when performing field operations.

目的：研制一种能在野战生存条件下严重缺水时使用的便携式空气取水器。

Wastewater recycling is an effective approach to relax the severe water shortage in China at present.

污水资源化是解决我国目前存在的严重水危机的有效途径.