Gaza has a chronic water shortage leaving tap water undrinkable and forcing the Palestinians to pump huge amounts of untreated sewerage into the sea.

加沙长期缺水，导致自来水不能饮用，迫使巴勒斯坦人往大海中倾倒大量的未处理垃圾。

The first, of course, was that since Libya enjoys a long coastline straddling the Mediterranean, they could hypothetically construct a system of desalination plants that would transform the undrinkable salt water of the Mediterranean into usable freshwater.

首先，当然，由于利比亚拥有横跨地中海的漫长海岸线，他们可以假设建造一个海水淡化厂系统，将地中海不能饮用的盐水转化为可用的淡水。