As Wu Xiuli remembers it, the stream near her village at the foot of the Jiuling Mountains in eastern China used to be so clear you could drink from it.
Now, however, whenever it rains, mud from the mountains slides into the stream, turning the water a cloudy greyish white, "like rice soup," the 50-something resident said.
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