1.   The lake is seriously polluted.

2.   Mining would pollute the lake and denude the forest.

3.   This falls back to earth to pollute lakes, kill plants and even eat the paint off cars.

4.   But the lake is polluted with minerals and chemicals from old mining operations.

5.   The Indonesian government plans to protest to Germany that a German cosmetics company is polluting a lake outside Jakarta, a senior official said Thursday.

6.   A subsidiary of the Australian conglomerate Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges that it polluted a lake last year, destroying fish habitat.