The municipal water supply would essentially shut down the majority of the taps.

市政供水将基本关闭大部分水龙头。

The city's municipal water supply would only be maintained to essential services like hospitals and to buildings within the central business district.

该市的市政供水将仅用于医院和中央商务区内的建筑物等基本服务。

Building an innovative water filtration system could provide a solution for farmers working in drought-stricken regions, or a way to clean municipal water in polluted cities.

建立创新的水过滤系统可以为在干旱地区工作的农民提供解决方案，或者为污染城市的市政用水提供清洁方法。

When Day Zero finally arrived, the city's plan was to shut off nearly the entire municipal water supply and set up 149 water collection points across the town, guarded by armed police.

当零日终于到来时，该市的计划是关闭几乎整个市政供水，并在全城设立 149 个取水点，由武装警察守卫。

These events raise questions about just how safe municipal water supplies in the United States are, and whether additional filtration steps are required even outside of areas experiencing an acute crisis.

这些事件引发了人们对美国市政供水安全性的质疑，以及即使在经历严重危机的地区之外是否也需要采取额外的过滤措施。

Although municipal water managers are reluctant to talk publicly about the issue, " they're very worried, " says Deepak Mishra, an associate professor of geography at the University of Georgia who studies the global distribution of harmful algal blooms.

虽然市政供水管理人员不愿公开谈论这个问题，“但他们非常担心，”乔治亚大学研究有害藻华全球分布的地理学副教授迪帕克·米什拉说。