Canals were built through the city so that food supplies could be directly transported from the food-productive Yangtze plain to the farthest southwestern point of the empire.

On a smaller scale, the Canals Society refurbished Rheola aqueduct in 1990, so that their trip boat, named Thomas Dadford and launched on 12 July, could make longer journeys.

The company then decided they could get grants for widening the Foxton and Watford locks, and under an Act of Parliament obtained in 1931, bought the Leicester, the Loughborough and the Erewash Canals.

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.

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.

Canals began to be built in the late 18th century to link the major manufacturing centres across the country.

Canals were the first technology to allow bulk materials to be easily transported across the country, coal being a common commodity.

In yacht racing, a round-the-world route approximating a great circle would be quite impractical, particularly in a non-stop race where use of the Panama and Suez Canals would be impossible.

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 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.

This was not the original meeting point of the Grand Junction and Oxford Canals: the junction was moved in the course of improvements to the Oxford Canal in the 1830s, prior to which the junction was near where the marina is today, and where a third Horseley Ironworks bridge can be seen.

To accommodate drainage of and shipping on the tributaries of the IJ, such as the Spaarne, the Zaan, and the Nauerna Canal, nine auxiliary canals needed to be dug as well ( Side Canals " A " to " I ").

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

A canal should be placed in an appropriate: Category: Canals by country sub-category ; if none exist, then the canal should remain directly in this category.

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.

Although the scheme was deemed to be unviable, interest in restoration continued, and the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust ( LHCRT ) was formed to promote the restoration of the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal.

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.

In fall 605, after the completion of the Tongji and Han Canals, Emperor Yang carried out the first of 11 ( counting military campaigns ) tours that he would eventually undertake of various parts of the empire, going to Jiangdu — the capital of Yang Province, where he had been commandant previously — on an imperial ship that was said to be sufficiently large and luxurious to serve as floating palaces.

The former port is to be regenerated as part of the canal restoration project by the Cotswold Canals Partnership.

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.

No known publications in English, but a mention can be found on p. 34 – 35 of Hadfield's World Canals, 1986.

The three mills from the short can be seen in miniature on the Storybook Land Canals ride at Disneyland.

Canals are still used to provide water for agriculture.

Canals were used for transportation or for irrigation.

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.

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

Canals first saw use during the Roman occupation of the south of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation.

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.

Canals and rivers were unavailable in the winter season due to freezing, but the railroads ran year-round despite poor weather.

As a novice there, Arya attempts to master their belief that Faceless Men have no true identity by both throwing all her treasures into the water ( except her sword, Needle, which she cannot throw away due to Needle's symbolization of all she lost and left behind ) and posing as a girl called " Cat of the Canals ".

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.

Its position at the convergence of both the Erie and Champlain Canals as well as the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers, has contributed to many floods.

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.

Likewise, see Canals of Ireland, which covers both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

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.

The Calder and Hebble Navigation, which connects to the Navigation at Wakefield, allows boats to reach the Huddersfield Broad and Narrow Canals, and the Rochdale Canal.

After they pulled out of the restoration scheme, they sold the house, which was bought by a member of the Cotswold Canals Trust, and transferred the ownership of the lock to the Trust.

Canals came into being because the Industrial Revolution ( which began in Britain during the mid-18th century ) demanded an economic and reliable way to transport goods and commodities in large quantities.

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.

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 .).

The drying of the lake lead to the creation of a network of canals, of which the Jamaica and La Viga Canals were most important from the colonial period to the early 20th century.

Alfons de Borja, later known as Pope Callixtus III ( 1378 – 1458 ), was born in La Torreta, Canals, which was then situated in the Kingdom of Valencia, to Domingo de Borja and Francina Llançol.

Shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor works on a barge which operates from Glasgow, on the River Clyde, along the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals to Edinburgh.

A restoration group was formed in 1969, as part of a national drive by the Inland Waterways Association called Safeguarding Britain's Waterways, which led to the formation in 1973 of the Droitwich Canals Trust, a limited company with local authority support, which began to work towards the restoration of the canal.

A Planning Application for the restoration was submitted by British Waterways on behalf of the Droitwich Canals Restoration Partnership in May 2007, by which time a total of £ 10. 5 million had been promised, some of which was dependent on match funding, and the Restoration Partnership needed to raise £ 1 million in order to release the other funding.

This canal basin was the point at which the Cromford, Erewash and Nottingham Canals met.

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.

An Act of Parliament was obtained in August 1928, which allowed the amalgamation of the Regent's Canal, the Grand Junction, the Warwick and Birmingham, the Birmingham and Warwick Junction and the Warwick and Napton Canals.

; 1984: There is possibility of the complete ring being resurrected by the Barnsley Canal Group which has been formed with the intention of restoring the Barnsley and Dearne & Dove Canals.

The canaliculi join each other to form larger and larger structures, sometimes referred to as Canals of Hering, which themselves join to form small bile ductules that have an epithelial surface.

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.