In 2019, Zhejiang province had reported that 99 percent of all its villages had access to tap water, thus placing itself as a national leader in the provision of secure drinking water to its rural residents. However, in Wood-Stone Village, a small hamlet nestled in the mountains of Zhejiang province about 350 km from the capital city of Hangzhou, villagers have had to resort to insufficiently-treated river water due to a shortage of potable tap water fuelled by drought and unusually cold weat...
