11.   But the receding water also posed dangers.

12.   Peasants in inundated Hunan were shown standing in fields washing plants caked with mud left by receding waters.

13.   Receding waters left mud and debris on streets and sidewalks.

14.   Receding waters revealed the death and devastation brought by flooding in southern Mexico, where President Ernesto Zedillo flew Monday for the third time to check on relief efforts.

15.   Several dozen people lined up for bread and water distributed by the Red Cross in Kazimierz Pulaski Street in downtown Wroclaw, just at the edge of receding water.

16.   The government sent doctors first to northern provinces, where receding waters were polluting wells in villages and drinking water pipelines in cities and towns.

17.   The receding water left waist-high black marks on every house and tons of mud and other filth inside.

18.   The receding waters left behind cattle and other farm animals drowned in the flash flood.

19.   Friday the hopes of hundreds of people awaiting word of survivors were evaporating with the receding waters as rescue workers collected and counted more bodies.

20.   Doctors are rushing to distribute disinfectants and medicines to millions in an attempt to prevent epidemics in areas where receding waters are uncovering sewage and chemical contamination.