1.   Compounding scarcity is the growing problem of water degradation caused by saltwater intrusions, chemical pollutants, and human sewage.

2.   A British microbiologist claims he has found a means of using bacteria to dispose of human sewage.

3.   At sunup, they straggle home, six flights up a dark stairwell reeking of human sewage to a derelict apartment where they joke and roughhouse for a while.

4.   But sightings of raw human sewage in the sea are not uncommon.

5.   In testing the river for poisons, an environmental engineer also found human sewage he said was coming from improperly working septic tanks upriver.

6.   The load includes recyclable material, piles of waste from years past and even human sewage carried back from remote, fragile field sites.

7.   Pollutants include human sewage, household and industrial chemicals, and farm run-off.

8.   Biologist Juan Ocola of the Binational Authority of Lake Titicaca says the lenma is flourishing because it lives on the nutrient-rich human sewage flowing into the bay.

9.   Bundles of cardboard, pulped paper, ground food and human sewage are jettisoned daily into the Arabian Gulf.

10.   The floodwaters are contaminated with human sewage, household and industrial chemicals, and farm runoff.