An anisotropic filtration problem with singular advections and strong absor
ptions, which leads to a quasilinear degenerate parabolic equation in diver
gent form, is studied in this paper. The uniqueness and the comparison prin
ciple are proved for the bounded and continuous solutions to the Cauchy pro
blem and the first boundary-initial-value problems. (C) 2001 Elsevier Scien
ce Ltd. All rights reserved.