Kashmiri boatmen row their boats on the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar May 30, 2007. For Dal Lake, an ebb in Kashmir's separatist insurgency and tentative peace moves between India and Pakistan has come none to soon. Raw sewage, land encroachment and years of neglect have been threatening the survival of a lake where visitors from Mughal emperors to George Harrison once enjoyed the idyllic stillness of its waters surrounded by Himalayan mountains. To match feature INDIA-KASHMIR/LAKE.
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