...[V]illagers living along the banks of the Thi Vai river in the Mekong Delta knew full well that the waterway was dead. They had complained for years that industrial waste discharged into the Thi Vai had poisoned their wells, killed all the fish and was making them sick... Last month, with pressure mounting, investigators announced they had caught a Taiwanese-owned monosodium glutamate factory red-handed... [I]nspectors discovered that Vedan Vietnam, a foreign-owned company, was illegally dumping untreated waste... An unprecedented crackdown followed...