Aerial view of a polluted river in Laowangzhai village, Hunan Province.
Decades of intense and unregulated mining activities have resulted in more and deeper scars in the hills of this farming area.
In the past, local villagers were able to use the streams coming from the mountains for drinking water and for irrigation, but now there is no clean water available and what flows from the hills when it rains is the milky white wastewater that makes its way into the farmland and river. 

长达几十年的野蛮开采导致山上矿洞密集，以前村民可以使用山上的溪水用来饮用和灌溉，但现在已无水可用，每当下雨时，山上流下的都是乳白色的污水，污水最终流入农田、汇入河流。