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

Canals were important for industrial development.

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

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

When the Derby and Nottingham Canals were completed by Jessop and Benjamin Outram in 1796, they provided direct routes to the important textile centres of Derby and Nottingham.

Having been built to connect the Peak Forest and Cromford Canals, the railways fortunes were closely tied with those of the 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.

The Erie and Champlain Canals were begun in 1817 and the section in Cohoes finished in 1823, they would impact Cohoes in every aspect, Cohoes was even known as Juncta because of this.

Canals were used for transportation or for irrigation.

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.

Canals, dykes and dams were built routing the water of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers around the marshes, instead of allowing water to move slowly through the marshland.

Canals were dug to facilitate the irrigation of agricultural lands throughout the empire.

Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Despite this, in 1895, American astronomer Percival Lowell published his book Mars, followed by Mars and its Canals in 1906, proposing that the canals were the work of a long-gone civilization.

The financial strain broke on March 7 when GTR defaulted on repayment of construction loans to the federal government, whereby the GTPR was nationalized and taken over by a Board of Management operating under the Department of Railways and Canals while legalities were resolved.

Canals with small locks were cut in 1885 from Lake Washington to Lake Union, and from Lake Union to Salmon Bay.

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

Restoration plans were first voiced in 1975, and since 1990, the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Society have been actively engaged in excavating and rebuilding sections of the canal as they have become available.

Canals were also drained on the same day.

Canals are artificial waterways that are constructed to provide a new path of travel for vessels ( as opposed to improving a natural waterway along its current course ).

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 are man-made channels for water.

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 have various features to tackle the problem of water supply.

Canals can disrupt water circulation in marsh systems.

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 are still used to provide water for agriculture.

* " Canals and Navigable Rivers " by James S. Aber, Emporia State University

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.

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.

In 1848 James B. Francis, while working as head engineer of Lowell's Locks and Canals company, improved on these designs to create a turbine with 90 % efficiency.

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

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

1929's La Belle Marinière Beautiful Lady of the Canals a / k / a The Beautiful Bargewoman still has some of the excessively-poetic dialogue, but is overall a realistic play about a love triangle involving a bargeman, his wife and his best friend and companion.

Alfonso de Borja was born in La Torreta, now a neighbourhood of Canals, Valencia – today in Spain – but at that time in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon.

* Excerpt from the Illustrated London News, January 11, 1862 describing the Canals of Canada.

After the river's flow was under control, two major canals serving the western side of the Sacramento Valley – the Tehama-Colusa and Corning Canals.

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

Second Army would assemble its units at the Maas-Scheldt and Albert Canals.

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.

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.

Canals could not be used in winter due to ice and floods, which caused damage that had to be repaired in the spring.