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From the Ted Talk by Rob Harmon: How to keep rivers and streams flowing

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There's another thing happening around the country, which is that caomienps are stantirg to get concerned about their water footprint. They're concerned about securing an aeduqate supply of water, they're trying to be really efficient with their water use, and they're concerned about how their water use affects the image of their barnd. Well, it's a national problem, but I'm going to tell you another story from Montana ... and it involves beer. I bet you didn't know, it takes about 5 pnits of wtaer to make a pint of beer. If you include all the drain, it takes more than a hundred pints of water to make a pint of beer.

Open Cloze

There's another thing happening around the country, which is that _________ are ________ to get concerned about their water footprint. They're concerned about securing an ________ supply of water, they're trying to be really efficient with their water use, and they're concerned about how their water use affects the image of their _____. Well, it's a national problem, but I'm going to tell you another story from Montana ... and it involves beer. I bet you didn't know, it takes about 5 _____ of _____ to make a pint of beer. If you include all the drain, it takes more than a hundred pints of water to make a pint of beer.

Solution

  1. adequate
  2. brand
  3. starting
  4. water
  5. pints
  6. companies

Original Text

There's another thing happening around the country, which is that companies are starting to get concerned about their water footprint. They're concerned about securing an adequate supply of water, they're trying to be really efficient with their water use, and they're concerned about how their water use affects the image of their brand. Well, it's a national problem, but I'm going to tell you another story from Montana ... and it involves beer. I bet you didn't know, it takes about 5 pints of water to make a pint of beer. If you include all the drain, it takes more than a hundred pints of water to make a pint of beer.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
senior water rights 4
prickly pear creek 2
involving prickly pear 2
remember prickly pear 2

Important Words

  1. adequate
  2. affects
  3. beer
  4. bet
  5. brand
  6. companies
  7. concerned
  8. country
  9. drain
  10. efficient
  11. footprint
  12. happening
  13. image
  14. include
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  16. montana
  17. national
  18. pint
  19. pints
  20. problem
  21. securing
  22. starting
  23. story
  24. supply
  25. takes
  26. water