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* Description of Inland Waterways in the Congo from the UN Joint Logistics Centre
* Inland Waterways Navigation, Locks and Dams
** Sec 206, Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978, as amended by Sec 1405, WRDA 1986
In the 1950s traffic began to fall and low fixed bridges would have replaced opening bridges but for the actions of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland which persuaded the Tánaiste to encourage passenger launches, which kept the bridges high enough for navigation.
Charlotte was heavily involved in campaigning for more funds and the regeneration of England's waterways while in Parliament and won the first ever Inland Waterways Association Parliamentarian of the Year Award in 2008.
There are nine partners: British Waterways, Cumbria County Council, Inland Waterways Association, Kendal Town Council, Lancashire County Council, City of Lancaster Council, Lancaster Canal Trust, South Lakeland District Council, and The Waterways Trust.
In the context of British Inland Waterways, " narrow boat " refers to the original working boats built in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries for carrying goods on the narrow canals ( where locks and bridge holes would have a minimal MAXIMUM width of ; some locks on the Shropshire Union are even smaller ).
* The Inland Waterways Association: River Ancholme
* Inland Waterways Protection Society
With the increase in interest in waterways as leisure facilities, the Inland Waterways Association began to take an active role in the improvement of the River Gipping from the 1970s.
* Article written by Bob Kearney ( former working party organiser of Ipswich Branch of the Inland Waterways Association ) for " Navvies ", the magazine of the Waterway recovery Group.
* Ipswich Branch of Inland Waterways Association who are restoring the navigation.
Further funding came from an Inland Waterways Association national restoration fund, launched in 1969.
This was first considered by the Severn Trent Water Authority in 1974, who conducted a survey, the cost of which was partly funded by the Inland Waterways Association.
A group supporting the restoration of the canal had been set up in the early 1950s independently of the Inland Waterways Association, with which it was subsequently merged.
In July 1958, the Bowes Committee published their Inquiry into Inland Waterways which specifically mentioned the Kennet and Avon finding " no justification for restoring the section from Reading to Bath ".
A government white paper followed the Bowes Report in February 1959, recommending that an Inland Waterways Redevelopment Advisory Committee should assist schemes to regenerate canals that were no longer able to collect enough fees from tolls to pay for their upkeep.
The northern section was the setting for a high-profile campaign by the fledgling Inland Waterways Association in 1947, involving the right of navigation under Tunnel Lane bridge, which required the Great Western Railway to jack it up in order to allow boats to pass.
After Lord Methuen raised the issue in the House of Lords in 1947, and was assured that the bridge " would be lifted at any time on notice of intended passage being given ", Tom Rolt of the Inland Waterways Association ( IWA ) announced that he intended to pass under the bridge on 20 May 1947.
A campaign against closure was mounted by the Inland Waterways Association and local activists.
Another step forwards occurred in 2010, when British Waterways gave Inglesham Lock to the Trust, and the Inland Waterways Association mounted a national campaign to fund its restoration and around of canal above it.

Inland and Association
* Association of Inland Navigation Authorities ( AINA )
Suttons Bay is home to the Inland Seas Education Association, educating school age youth on the Great Lakes by use of the Inland Seas schoolship.
In 2002, the waterway was identified as being of high priority in the Association of Inland Navigation Authorities report entitled Vision for Strategic Enhancement of Britain's Inland Navigation Network, and was one of several new projects highlighted at British Waterways ' Unlocked and Unlimited conference held in March.
A Heritage Survey, which cost £ 60, 000 and was funded by the Inland Waterways Association, was carried out, as was a Community Development Plan and a Visitor Management Strategy, costing another £ 30, 000, all of which were pre-requisites for the main HLF bid.
In June 2010 the Inland Waterways Association ( IWA ) mounted a national campaign for £ 125, 000 to enable Inglesham Lock and around of the pound above it to be restored.
It is now run by Essex Waterways Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Inland Waterways Association.
After negotiations with the Administrator, the Inland Waterways Association ( IWA ) signed a maintenance and operating agreement in November 2005 to take over responsibility for the running of the navigation through a wholly owned subsidiary called Essex Waterways Ltd.
In 1988 the West Country branch of the Inland Waterways Association produced a walking guide to the canal, and to several others in the West Country, hoping to stimulate interest in it.

Inland and organised
In 1950 the canal basin was the venue for a week long National Festival of Boats, the first such Festival organised by the Inland Waterways Association and marking the beginning of the revival of the canal network for leisure use.
Pressure from the Inland Waterways Association, combined with the formation of the Peak Forest Canal Society, led to a campaign to reopen the Ashton, with the major organised volunteer clearance of the section though Droylsden in September 1968, known as Operation Ashton.
The churches founded by the mission in each of its fields were eventually organised into branches of the independent Africa Inland Church which continues to work closely with the mission today.

Inland and several
The concept of cruising for pleasure was popularized in the nineteenth century, by several widely read authors and books: John MacGregor, 1866, A Thousand Miles in a Rob Roy Canoe ; Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877, An Inland Voyage ; and Nathaniel H. Bishop, 1879, Four Months in a Sneakbox.
The ( then ) Inland Revenue took several years to clear the backlog.
The Inland Sea is still used, however, by an international cargo transport line and several local transport lines connecting Honshū with Shikoku and Kyūshū.
All around the Inland Empire are several Casinos that feature, on occasion, Filipino performers.
The 1939 edition of " Inland Waterways of Great Britain ", an early attempt to provide a guide for the leisure use of canals, noted that the River Lee had " several subsidiary canalised waterways ", and listed Bow Creek, Old River Lee, City Mills River and Waterworks River, but did not describe them collectively.
The lake is part of the great Inland Waterway, by which one can boat from Crooked Lake several miles ( km ) east of Petoskey on the Little Traverse Bay of Lake Michigan across the northern tip of the lower peninsula's so-called mitten to Cheboygan on Lake Huron.
The region is separated into several areas: the Inland Niger Delta around Mopti, the Bandiagara cliffs and the plain of Bankass along the Burkina Faso frontier.
His first book, The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937 serves as a prism through which to view several themes: the re-orientation of the Chinese state from a focus on social reproduction ( especially in ecologically marginal areas ) to an emphasis on survival in a world of competing nation states ; changing relations between the national government, regional interests and legal society ; economic ( especially agricultural ) and ecological change ; peasant protest and collective violence and the effects of imperialism on state-making, regional disparities and existing conflicts in Chinese society.
He played several games with the Single-A Inland Empire 66ers, homering in his first at-bat with the 66ers.
Until 2004, the line hosted several Inland Route Regional trains, which continued east from Springfield along the CSX Transportation ( former Boston and Albany Railroad ) line to Boston, Massachusetts.
Taylor traveled across several continents to recruit for the China Inland Mission.

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