1. 英翻中

The city of Wuxi, in east China’s Jiangsu province, was hit by a serious ecological disaster this week. A large bloom of blue-green algae in Taihu Lake caused water quality to deteriorate severely. Despite the local water department’s attempts at mitigating the crisis, the water supply to a great number of households was contaminated, the water becoming putrid and very unpleasant to drink. Degradation of water quality led to tremendous inconvenience to local inhabitants. In response, the Wuxi city government used their website to tell residents to come together and surmount the crisis, which they described as a “natural disaster.”

While it is crucial to help others in the face of a crisis, labelling the algae bloom a natural disaster was completely inaccurate. TaihuLake has suffered from low water levels this year, and the weather has been hot – with little rain -- all of which will have contributed to the algae bloom. However, the local government announced that, “the water quality problem is in no way caused by manufacturing or any other human activity,” when in fact there were local factors causing the algae bloom. In particular: the serious eutrophication of TaihuLake, caused by the great volume of pollutants discharged into the water.

中国东部江苏省的无锡市这周正在经历一场严重的生态灾难。太湖蓝藻大面积爆发，造成饮用水源地水质恶化。虽经供水部门采取了各项补救措施，千家万户的自来水龙头出水依然腥臭难闻，难以饮用。供水水质下降给居民的生活带来了极大不便。无锡市政府通过其网站提请广大市民，面对自然灾害，要同舟共济、克服困难、共渡难关。

同舟共济，共度难关应该是这个艰难时刻的主旋律，但将蓝藻爆发归结为自然灾害，则非常不妥。的确，今年无锡区域内的太湖出现低水位，同时天气连续高温少雨，这些都是引发蓝藻爆发的诱因，当地政府因此宣称“水质问题并不是生产或其他人为因素造成的”。但是，蓝藻爆发的内在因素，是太湖水体严重富营养化，而太湖水体的富营养化，则是污染物质大量排入造成的结果。

2. 中翻英

随着人类社会的不断发展，环境问题越来越突出地摆在世人面前，环境保护与可持续发展已成为当今各国发展的重要战略。作为环境法理论基石的公民环境权是公民的一项应有的基本人权。为保障公民的环境利益，顺应世界人权发展的潮流，有些国家已在宪法或专门的环境法中确立了公民环境权并进行较好的保护。

我国虽然也有了环境立法和环境保护的实践，但并未以立法的形式明确承认公民环境权。而在现行的法律体制下，公民环境权得不到有效的救济，即使有限的救济和补偿，也难以弥补公民环境权益所遭受的侵害。

Man's social development has led to a prominent problem -- the environment. Protecting the environment and sustainable development are now part of national strategy. It should be a basic human right and serve as a foundation to environmental legislation. Some nations have already enacted the right of residents to public environment into law and are protecting that right complying with the trend of world human rights development.

Although China has environmental laws and protective measures, there is no legislation to recognize residents' rights to the environment. Under the current legal framework, residents are not accorded proper compensation, even in cases where compensation is given, it is far from enough to make up for the losses incurred.

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