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Only 3% of the water on our planet is fresh.
地球上只有3%的水是淡水
Yet these precious waters are rich with surprise.
可是這些珍貴的淡水中卻充滿了驚奇
All life on land is ultimately dependant upon fresh water.
所有陸地生命歸根結底都依賴于淡水
The mysterious tepuis of Venezuela, isolated mountain plateaus rising high above the jungle.
神秘的委內瑞拉平頂山區，一個孤立于叢林之上的的山地高原
This was the inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World, an imagined prehistoric land.
這里是亞瑟·柯南·道爾的著作《失落的世界》的靈感源泉，一個想象中的史前世界
Here, strange towers of sandstone have been sculptured over the millennia by battering wind and torrential rain.
這里佇立著數千年來暴風驟雨雕鑿成的奇形怪狀的石塔
Moisture, rising as water vapour from the surface of the sea, is blown inland by wind.
水蒸發成水蒸氣從海面升起，接著被風帶到內陸。
On reaching mountains, the moist air is forced upwards
途經山脈的時候，水氣被迫抬升
and as it cools, it condenses into cloud and finally rain, the source of all fresh water.
逐漸冷卻，匯聚成云，最后形成降雨，這便是所有淡水的來源。
There is a tropical downpour here almost every day of the year.
這里全年幾乎每天都會降下熱帶暴雨
