In China, Clean Water Comes at High Cost

BEIJING -- Fifty-eight year-old Zhang Hui has never had a problem finding safe drinking water—not in his first village in central Zhejiang province, which the local government demolished to build a wastewater treatment plant, and not in his second village, a cluster of concrete mid-rises next to a textile plant that belches orange-red smoke from three large smokestacks, blanketing the area in a noxious haze.