31.   The decay that has befallen it can be seen on a downtown street, which is cut by an open sewer.

32.   The private and U.N. care givers and soldiers assigned this mission have worked for weeks among the dying in camps that resemble open sewers.

33.   The Qweik is now a fast-flowing open sewer, its stench drifting for miles across the barren fields.

34.   The stench of garbage and an open sewer wafted into the room.

35.   The Truckee River essentially died, becoming an open sewer, and a bare trickle during drought years.

36.   Today the canals are open sewers, and a group from MIT has been called to the rescue.

37.   Piles of trash are scattered about, and there is a stench from an open sewer.

38.   A Taliban security guard outside the foreign ministry, Mohammed Irfan, said the bomb was hidden in an open sewer drain.

39.   Bhichit Rattakul almost disappeared from view as he stumbled into the open sewer while leading an entourage to a ceremony Tuesday.

40.   Communicable diseases could run rampant, spreading from open sewers that breed mosquitoes, he said.