Granted, rich countries have a certain advantage: they benefit from generally moderate climates, with regular rainfall and relatively low risks of drought and flooding. Even so, they are not immune to water-related disasters, as Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans taught us.
诚然，富裕国家有一些优势：它们一般气候适宜，雨量均匀，并且干旱和洪涝风险相对较低。即便如此，它们也并非不受与水有关的灾害影响，飓风卡特里娜对新奥尔良的破坏就是我们得到的一个教训。