hoping that the city can at least find some ways to minimize the amount of sewage about to be dumped into the river.

They also wanted the protest to convey to Montrealers the responsibility of being mindful of the non-human waste they put in the toilet.

Alexandre Lépine, a member of Quebec Surf, said people should work together to keep the water as clean as possible.

After all, he added, the current of the river might be powerful enough to wash the waste away from the city's shores, but other cities upstream will have to contend with what Montrealers flush.

The City of Montreal plans to dump the untreated wastewater into the river as a temporary measure while it carries out work on the Bonaventure Expressway and some parts of the MontrealMount Sodom (Israel) (AFP) - Israeli cave explorers said Thursday that a salt cave with striking stalactites near the Dead Sea is the world's longest, beating the previous record-holder in Iran.

The cave named Malham, stretching over 10 kilometres (6.25 miles), runs through Mount Sodom, Israel's largest mountain, and spills out to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea.

Pale salt stalactites hang from the ceilings, and some of the walls sparkle with salt crystals. Drops of salty water are visible at the tips of some of the stalactites.

Malham became known to researchers through the work of Amos Frumkin, founder and director of the Hebrew University's Cave Research Centre, who in the 1980s mapped around five kilometres of it.

But in 2006, researchers mapped over six kilometres of the N3