A network of khlongs (canals), fields and allotments used to soak up flooding, but with recent urbanisation many buildings have taken their place and the water is trapped.
They altered ecosystems with vast urban and rural infrastructure that included thousands of reservoirs, wetland fields and canals, terraces, field ridges, and temples.
That day I drove south through a landscape of shady canals, green fields and mango orchards.
This is Mr. Wang's home village in Sichuan Province, where irrigation canals line fields and a cement factory belches fumes.
Heavily populated oases and foothill basins are covered with an extensive network of canals intersecting fields, orchards, and vineyards.
The artillery was shelling targets and firing flares in support of Iraqi and American forces clearing Balad Ruz, a region of canals and fields east of Baghdad.
An integrated approach to archaeological survey is presented here with particular emphasis on magnetic gradiometry as a tool to efficiently survey and document the complex palimpsest of irrigation canals, agricultural fields, and structures at La Playa.
Hence, they were introduced to, and took up, the Dutch game, which had been played in the winter on frozen canals, in fields and in the streets since 1300, and one version of which was called "colf".
Behler and King (1979) list its habitats as including lowland swamps, lakes, rivers, bayheads, sloughs, irrigation ditches, canals, rice fields and small clear rocky mountain streams.
Del Bosque, in denim shirt and white straw hat, walked with Obama past canals and fields, waving his hands as he talked.
