11.   Polluted rivers and rickety waterworks have caused outbreaks of dengue and cholera, he said.

12.   The company, in concert with the government, drew up a compensation plan for villages along the polluted rivers.

13.   Pollution is not as bad as in Jakarta, where children float in inner tubes along polluted rivers collecting trash for recycling.

14.   A mechanical engineer says he warned contractors that a foot bridge built to carry athletes across a polluted river would buckle under the pressure of large groups of people.

15.   Already people are complaining of sickness from drinking polluted river water.

16.   But environmentalists fear builders will take advantage of the loophole by paving over open space anyway and contributing to overtaxed sewer plants and polluted rivers.

17.   Experts said the virus may have been spread by fish caught in polluted rivers.

18.   Four Australian athletes were killed in the incident, including Sawicki, who is believed to have died from swallowing polluted river water.

19.   For Penang Island Municipal Council labourer Sharif Husin, living by the polluted river has become a way of life.

20.   Health authorities warned of the danger of typhoid, dengue, salmonella and cholera breaking out as people bathed and drank from polluted rivers.