1.   And across the nation, there were thousands of polluted lakes and rivers.

2.   A polluted lake and a hazardous cosmetic demonstrate the need for strengthening federal chemical disclosure laws.

3.   Cleaning up polluted lakes, protecting fragile shores and closing dangerous landfills are no less desirable because they are popular.

4.   He said that the country has also experienced massive fish kills in heavily polluted lakes and bays, threatening a major source of protein for local communities.

5.   Industrial waste dumping was widespread under the Soviet Union, and Russia continues to suffer from heavily polluted lakes and rivers, according to environmental groups.

6.   Industrial waste dumping was widespread in the Soviet Union, and Russia has long said it lacks the money to clean up its heavily polluted lakes and rivers.

7.   Ten years later, winds carried radioactive particles from a drying-up polluted lake across villages and farmland.

8.   With people sleeping on sidewalks and drinking water from the heavily polluted lake without food or sanitation, U.N. officials are fearful of a cholera outbreak.

9.   Workers will repair roads and schools, build houses, clean up polluted lakes, construct water tanks and improve railways and water lines.

10.   Officials also hope to wrap up an ecological agreement with China with Canada providing China with technical expertise on cleaning up polluted lakes.