After so many years of heavy cutting in the forest, the Chingshui River has been seriously weakened, and the droughts and floods have been unending ever since. The added wounds made by the mining--the fact that the industry paid no attention to the techniques used--has added to the ecological disaster.
幾十年來大量砍伐森林，清水溪元氣大傷，種下了旱、澇不斷的因子。繼之開礦的重創﹘﹘採礦業者對開礦技術的不在乎，給生態帶來更深層的災難。