The United Nations Environment Programme and the World Bank have funded attempts to survey the groundwater resources of arid lands and to develop appropriate extraction techniques.

美国国家环境总署和世界银行开始拨款并着手调查干旱地区的地下水资源，以开发合适的开采技术。

The study was funded by the United Nations Development Program.

这项研究由联合国开发计划署资助。

In the 1982 national census, the United Nations Population fund not only sent experts to China, but funded a computer for each province.

在1982年全国人口普查中，联合国人口基金不仅向中国派来专家，而且资助中国每个省一台电脑。