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The Black Moutain Copper Mining Company, located near a small town in Arizona, is polluting the river. The narrator is a biology teacher. She has been invited to a special meeting of the women’s club. 

"My students and I looked at the river water under microscopes, and the usual things that live in a river aren’t there. Then we tested the pH of the river and found out it’s very acidic. The EPA has tested it too, and they agree. But your trees knew all this way before we did. Watering them from the river is just like acid rain falling on them, if you’ve heard of that. The acid-rain problem here in the West comes mostly from mine smelters . It's the same acid, one way or the other . Sulfuric acid ".
I feared I was losing my grasp of the subject, but they were still listening .
" I don't think I can tell you anything helpful . But if you have questions I'll try to answer them. " I sat down.
A thin woman in a red dress stood up and demanded, "You mean the fish and stuff is all killed?"
" Not the fish," I said. " They're still alive, but the smaller things that live in the water..." I considered how to phrase this, and started again. "Usually there's a whole world of microscopic things living in a river, and in the dirt , and the air. If you were in an airplane and flew over a city and looked down and saw nothing was moving you'd know something was up. That's how you can tell if a river is healthy or not. You can't see them, but they're supposed to be there."[...]
The woman in the red dress was still standing. " What we want to know is , is the river poisoned for good?" Every person in the room was looking at me.
"Well,no," I said. "The river could recover . It doesn't start here, it starts upon the Apache reservation, in the mountains where the snow melts. As long as that's pure, the water coming down here will be okay."
"So if you could stop Black Mountain from running the acid through the tailings , then after a while the junk would get washed out?" inquired Mrs.Galvez. "Like flushing the john?"
"Exactly like that ," I said.
Fifty women started talking at once. You'd think I'd commuted a death sentence. After a minute Dona Althea gave a short speech in Spanish, the gist of which was that I'd told them what they needed to know, and now they had to figure out how to get the company to stop polluting the river and go to hell.

Barbara Kingsloe, Animal Dreams(1990)