1.   Environmentalists are increasingly concerned about the effect of such graves on the groundwater, which leads into major Ukrainian waterways.

2.   Four hydroelectric dams along the major waterway, the Rio Sao Francisco, were at capacity.

3.   Neither those straits, nor any other major international waterway, is closed to U.S. ships now.

4.   Oil leaked from a corroded pipeline near the Volga River but showed no danger of reaching the major Russian waterway, a news agency reported Thursday.

5.   Oil leaked from a corroded pipeline near the Volga River but showed no danger of reaching the major Russian waterway, news reports said Thursday.

6.   The Red River and other major waterways are nearing their banks.

7.   The Tisza forms a short section of the Romanian-Ukrainan border and then enters Hungary and Yugoslavia before flowing into the Danube, a major European waterway.