Sentence examples for artificial waterways from inspiring English sources

Waterways include natural rivers and artificial waterways that may be rivers modified to guarantee navigation.

Most of the improvement of rivers and construction of artificial waterways in antiquity was for irrigation purposes.

Canals and inland waterways, natural or artificial waterways used for navigation, crop irrigation, water supply, or drainage.

On most international rivers, for example, there are no navigational charges; but tolls are charged on most national artificial waterways.

The canal, which was completed in August 1914, is one of the two most-strategic artificial waterways in the world, the other being the Suez Canal.

Transport by inland waterways may be by navigable rivers or those made navigable by canalization (dredging and bank protection) or on artificial waterways called canals.

The Cape Cod Canal is a serpentine artificial waterway that winds eight miles from Cape Cod Bay to Buzzards Bay.

A spectacular feat of engineering, this artificial waterway was opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water.

Göta Canal, Swedish Göta Kanal, artificial waterway that crosses southern Sweden to connect Lake Vänern with the Baltic Sea.

The Suez Canal – the first artificial waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea – initially opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction.

Part of the Gulf route at New Orleans consists of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, an artificial waterway that is the axis of a major industrial district.