Visited Jing xian (several areas) – The water is polluted at this location because of paper making factories upstream that dump their waste water in the river.

Chi tan – Spent a lot of time talking to one of the village elders.  He talked about the lack of education in the area and about how the paper factories have been causing problems ever since the were built about 20 years ago.  Before they were built, people could drink from the water but now the must build wells.  It is likely that the wells are polluted now too.  It is well known in the area that the paper factories run production at night so that they can dump waste water undetected.  The local authorities know of this, and yet they do nothing.