41.   For instance, drinking the contaminated water could cause gastrointestinal diseases, she said, and getting it on the skin could cause infections.

42.   Having realized that cholera was spread by contaminated water, he ripped the handle off a water pump in a London slum and stopped an epidemic.

43.   He said he is concerned that the contaminated water will reach his wells and drip down the shaft into the aquifer.

44.   Health officials warned residents to stay away from the Intracoastal Waterway and the ocean because overflowing sewage from manholes and other debris has contaminated water.

45.   Hepatitis A infection results from contact with human feces directly or through contaminated water or from foods such as shellfish taken from polluted waters, Riley said.

46.   Health officials say E. coli cases are not uncommon during the summer, a season for hot weather, outdoor cooking, picnics and swimming in potentially contaminated water.

47.   If they can link the types found in cases with those found in the contaminated water, the scientific link for such transmission will be stronger.

48.   In addition, the laboratory is pumping the contaminated water out of the ground and placing it in a new storage tank.

49.   In another case, where lettuce was contaminated, health officials suspected that it was washed with contaminated water.

50.   In such a worst-case scenario, Wiggs said the DWP could quickly isolate the contaminated water from the rest of the drinking water supplies.