Canals are man-made channels for water.

Canals are created in one of three ways, or a combination of the three, depending on available water and available path:

Canals are still used to provide water for agriculture.

Canals are so deeply identified with Venice that many canal cities have been nicknamed " the Venice of …".

Two significant waterways not under VNF's control are the navigable sections of the River Somme and the Brittany Canals, which are both under local management.

Oneida Lake three rivers, as well as the Erie and subsequent Barge Canals are in the lake plain.

* The Cornwall and Chambly Canals are opened.

Canals are usually fed by diverting water from streams and rivers into the upper parts of the canal, but if no suitable source is available, a pumping station can be used to maintain the water level.

Canals, siphons, and more dams are used throughout the Columbia Basin, supplying over 600, 000 acres ( 2, 400 km² ) of farm land.

Note: because it's no longer generally known nor readily discernible that the river sections between the Pannerden and Bijland Canals and between the Bijland Canal and the original fork actually are part of river Waal, they nowadays are generally called " Rijn " ( Rhine ).

Canals are usually fed by diverting water from streams and rivers into the upper parts of the canal, but if no suitable source is available or sufficient, a pumping station, such as the one at Claverton, can be used to maintain the water level.

The Caldon and Uttoxeter Canals Trust are looking at the feasibility of restoring the canal from Froghall to Uttoxeter.

Haversian canals ( sometimes Canals of Havers, named after British physician Clopton Havers ) are a series of tubes around narrow channels formed by lamellae.

Plans are in place, and much activity being undertaken to restore the whole length of what is now known as The Cotswold Canals, eastwards from Brimscombe to Inglesham on the Thames.

The Neath and Tennant Canals are two independent but linked canals in South Wales that are usually regarded as a single canal.

Canals were and still are operated like turnpikes, where the canal company was prohibited for anti-monopoly reasons, from operating boats on the canal.

They were eventually purchased, along with a length of the canal and the Wappenshall basin, by Telford and Wrekin Council, who are working with the Trust to allow repairs to the buildings to be undertaken, with the aim of providing a museum and heritage centre for the canal, a cafe, and offices for the Canals Trust.

Today, the floodwalls atop the 17th Street and London Avenue Canals are used for drainage, to pump water from the city streets out to Lake Pontchartrain.

Among them are the Merritton Tunnel ( under the third Welland Canal ), remnants of the three previous Welland Canals and several early industrial ruins, and The Keg restaurant, which is housed in the former Independent Rubber Company / Merritton Cotton Mills Annex.

Canals and marshes are clogged with seven million cubic meters of debris from off shore rigs and coastal communities.

Canals in the waters of Lake Xochimilco were initially created along with that of a kind of artificial agricultural plots called chinampas.

The department of Earth was to be in charge of Agriculture and the agricultural sciences, Fire was to be in charge of the Military, Water was the department of the Canals and waterways while Air seemed to have responsibility for everything else.

The Scottish Government however, decided the waterways in Scotland would not be part of the new charity, with British Waterways Scotland remaining a state-owned entity operating as Scottish Canals.

* Canals and navigable waterways requiring continuous maintenance ( dredging, etc.

Canals, roads and railroads were constructed.

Canals were constructed throughout the first half of the 20th century, and spurred the South Florida economy, prompting land development.

The rest of the waterway to Port Dundas was converted into a culvert to maintain the water flow, and much of it now lies beneath the M8 motorway which was constructed along its path in the early 1970s ; the culvert remains under the jurisdiction of Scottish Canals ( as successor to British Waterways ) because of its function as a feeder to the Forth and Clyde Canal.

A barrage at Surlikonda across the Potteru stream was constructed to utilize the discharge from Balimela Power House for irrigation by means of two Main Canals one on the right side named as Tamasha Main Canal and the second on the left side named as Gompakonda Main Canal.

Canals were dug on both the north and the south banks to provide power to the factories that would soon be built on its banks as both mill owners and workers flocked to the city in droves.

In order to provide a suitable structure to drive the restoration forwards, the Cotswold Canals Partnership was established in 2001, drawing together people representing the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation, the Cotswold Canals Trust, councils at district and county level, and a number of other interested parties.

Suchet is vice-president of the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Trust, whose most challenging achievement to date has been securing funding ( both via an appeal and from influencing government decisions ) concerning the building of the new M6 Toll motorway where it cuts the lines of the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal, both of which the Trust wishes to see reopened.

Canals ( over which the battle was fought ) and pumping stations were built to remove the brackish water from the land which divided it into personal tracts with new stone houses for colonists from north Italy.

Following a February 24, 1906 fire, the Moncton shops were rebuilt at a new location at the insistence of the local Member of Parliament, Henry Emmerson, who was the Minister of Railways and Canals in Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier's cabinet.

Following the federal election of 1930, the new Conservative Prime minister R. B. Bennett appointed Manion Minister of Railways and Canals.

The influential observer Eugène Antoniadi used the 83-cm ( 32. 6 inch ) aperture telescope at Meudon Observatory at the 1909 opposition of Mars and saw no canals, the outstanding photos of Mars taken at the new Baillaud dome at the Pic du Midi observatory also brought formal discredit to the Martian Canals theory in 1909, and the notion of canals began to fall out of favor.

In 1834 he became Chief Engineer at the Proprietors of Locks and Canals in the new city of Lowell, Massachusetts.

The path is as follows: Bile canaliculi → Canals of Hering → interlobular bile ducts → intrahepatic bile ducts → left and right hepatic ducts merge to form → common hepatic duct exits liver and joins → cystic duct ( from gall bladder ) forming → common bile duct → joins with pancreatic duct → forming ampulla of Vater → enters duodenum

During heavy periods of rain or when the Des Plaines overflowed its banks due to downstream ice dams in the early spring, the river would flow through Mud Lake to the South Branch of the Chicago River, forming a favorite portage for early traders and creating the path of the future I & M and Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canals.

Smaller vessels ( up to CEMT class I ) can travel further northwest, north and northeast via the Centre-Loire-Briare and Loing Canals to the Seine, via the Canal de la Marne à la Saône ( recently often called the " Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne ") to the Marne, via the Canal des Vosges ( formerly called the " Canal de l ' Est – Branche Sud ") to the Moselle and via the Canal du Rhône au Rhin to the Rhine.

In this role, Rogers suggested the use of hydraulic lift locks to the Minister of Railways and Canals, John Haggart, who commissioned him to travel to Europe to study existing boat lifts in France ( the Ascenseur à bateaux des Fontinettes ), Belgium ( Lifts on the old Canal du Centre ) and England ( the Anderton Boat Lift near Northwich in Cheshire ).

Canals need to be level, and, while small irregularities in the lie of the land can be dealt with through cuttings and embankments, for larger deviations, other approaches have been adopted.

Canals were important for industrial development.

Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as easements for the installation of fibre optic telecommunications network cabling, avoiding having them buried in roadways while facilitating access and reducing the hazard of being damaged from digging equipment.

Canals dug for the oil and gas industry also allow storms to move sea water inland where it damages swamps and marshes.

* November 30, 1824 – The first sod is turned in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals ( the canal opens for a trial run exactly 5 years later to the day ).

* November 30 – The first sod is turned in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals ( the canal opens for a trial run exactly 5 years later to the day ).

See Canals of the United Kingdom for a list of the canals of Great Britain organised alphabetically by country, and lists of abandoned and future canal routes.

The series has included the trio rowing up the River Thames ( similar to the 1889 novel also named Three Men in a Boat ), sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing yacht race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, taking to the Irish Canals and Rivers and along with Dara's dog ( Snip Nua ), an escapade travelling throughout the Mediterranean to Venice and most recently attempting to find a boat to take to the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, where in response to an ongoing challenge between Griff and Dara ( who had each secured a boat each and who refusing to give it up to use the others ) he secured the Nantucket Lightship to use.

In 1955 the Board of Survey of Canals and Inland Waterways released a report that, among other things, described the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal as carrying substantial traffic and offering scope for commercial development.

Canals were used for transportation or for irrigation.

* Canals of the United Kingdom for a list of the UK's canals

The Trent – Severn Waterway is managed by Parks Canada under the statutory authority of the Historic Canals Regulations ( which outline and delegate the responsibilities for navigation, resource protection, dredge and fill operations, the operation of boater campgrounds, etc .).

Canals continued to be the primary commercial means of transport for Apsley's mills.

Canals were built along several of the valleys, to bring the iron down to the coast for shipping elsewhere.

When Ross resigned as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1907, Graham briefly succeeded him, but quickly left later that year for federal politics when he was appointed Minister of Railway and Canals in the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

Canals as Vectors for Fish Movement: Potential Southward Range Expansion of Lepisosteus osseus L. ( Longnose Gar ) in South Florida.

Other notable attractions included The Canals of Venice, of darkness that may have been Seattle's most famous makeout spot for two generations, and a hardwood floor dance pavilion.