With the trees gone, this would be a more or less open body of murky water.
Then they started up the shaft through the murky water.
Once she looked down into the rushing, murky blue green water of the river far below.
It was like trying to look through dark, murky water.
It looked like nothing so much as if she were floating under murky water.
The same went for the monkey, and how that murky water could help was beyond her.
"But they were in dark, murky water, and everything would have been upside down for them."
By day it is a fast current of murky water.
It was as if he were looking through murky water.
He continued to smoke and look out over the murky water.