11.   Tests showed that the water was poisoned with chlorobenzenes, used to help wool absorb dye.

12.   The people were losing their land to miners, whose mercury was poisoning the waters of the Quino River.

13.   The water is poisoned, they say, even in so wet a climate, and herbicides kill the ground cover that prevents erosion.

14.   There are other ways the waters have been poisoned.

15.   In Mikuni, three dolphins kept in a seawater tank had to be evacuated because the oil had poisoned the water, damaging their skin and eyes.

16.   In the months that followed, many residents feared cult members would try to spread the AIDS virus or poison the water.

17.   Prospectors roam across borders, invading Indian land and poisoning the water with mercury used to extract gold from river beds.

18.   Whole towns were emptied, homes and businesses burned, crops and livestock destroyed, water wells poisoned and land mines buried.

19.   Among the revelations is a plan to kill six million Germans by poisoning the water in several German cities including Munich and Nuremberg.