Vocabulary

• around the world: In or to many countries.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• sustainable: Capable of continuing for a long time
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• amount: Quantity of something
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• climate: Typical weather conditions in a particular place
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
• concentrate: To cause to be present in large amount or number
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
• afford: To make available, to provide
• efficient: Able to produce results without waste
• filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
• require: To demand that someone does something
• huge: Very very large
• remote: Being far away from people, towns, etc.
• substantial: (Of a meal) able to satisfy your hunger; filling
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• leftover: (Of food) that you didn't eat at a meal
• provide: To make available; to supply for use
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• breakthrough: Important discovery in doing something difficult
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• sustainability: Property of being able to be continued/repeated
• membrane: Outside covering of a cell
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• dilute: To make something weaker or less efficient
• infinity: State of being without end; endless time, space
• disposal: Act of giving or throwing something away
• minimize: To make something seem small or less important
• byproduct: A waste product made from making something else
• automate: To make automatic by using machines
• brine: Water that contains a lot of salt, e.g. sea water
• reuse: To use something again
• desalination: Removal of salt (especially from sea water)