41.   The Red Cross is distributing vast supplies of water-purification tablets, medicines and chlorine spray for disinfecting sanitation pits and previously submerged land once the waters recede.

42.   The swirling black water had receded enough Tuesday for Albert Reid to go back home, back to the place where he almost drowned.

43.   The water has receded.

44.   The waters are receding but the emotional, physical and economic devastation remains.

45.   The water was receding one recent Sunday when a weary Stenzel rose to sing in the First Baptist Church choir.

46.   The waters receded in other cities and towns, allowing residents to see the damage.

47.   The waters soon receded.

48.   Water had receded from his home, and he spent most of the day Wednesday removing items left untouched by the water.

49.   When the water receded, the family returned, Concepcion said, and now all four people sleep on the one mattress they bought after the flood.

50.   When the waters receded, a typhoid epidemic broke out.