101.   The flood waters also could spread Phylloxera, the minute plant louse that has devastated thousands of acres of vineyards.

102.   The flood waters enrich the soil.

103.   The flood waters trapped a school bus loaded with children for a time, but the bus made it to safety without incident.

104.   The flood waters moved quickly.

105.   The idea was to make the land suitable for agriculture and the channels helpful in absorbing flood waters.

106.   The secretary said numerous large backwater channels created by the flood waters would become habitat for the humpback chub fish and other endangered fish species.

107.   The slowly rising flood waters, and expected slow cresting and drop, are the result of that process, he said.

108.   The situation was still dangerous, he said, because flood waters flow into the province from further up the river.

109.   The supply of drinking water has run out here, and the sewage, oil and animal carcasses fouling the flood waters have prompted fears of disease.

110.   The scientists are using supercomputers to gauge the flow of flood waters in California two days before the flood arrives.