Such dams would ruin the lucrative business of selling water from the artesian wells he controlled, make water too cheap, ruin the whole important water economy so laboriously built up over hundreds of years.

• 这样的水坝势必使他的卖水生意受到一蹶不振的打击，势必使水价大便宜，势必把千百年来辛辛苦苦建立起来的这一整套管理水的重要体制彻底摧毁。