Innovative policies and new technologies that reduce water waste are helping countries across the Middle East and North Africa deal with water shortages.Those advances spring from the simple (A) i_____that preventing water loss is effectively the same as givingparched (干透的) countries new sources of water.This view gained widespread credibility in the wake of an international (1) r_____ program called the "demand management" project,which was designed to ease the region's water (B) c.