With the completion in 1918 of the New York State Barge Canal System (now called the New York State Canal System), which incorporated the old Erie Canal, New York had the country's most extensive inland waterway system.
Steel production and diversified chemical manufacturing constitute the other basic industries of the region, which is served by an extensive inland-waterway system and one of Europe's densest railway networks.
The Midwest is blessed with vast expanse of fertile land and great human talent as nowhere else in the world, coupled with an extensive inland waterway system permitting crop production to reach world markets.
An extensive system of waterways in this part of Germany was finally established with the opening of the Plauer Canal in 1746, which ran from the Elbe to the Havel.
In contrast, relatively little priority has been given to documenting and understanding landscape changes in the roughly 400 000 km2 of Amazônia's floodplains, where an extensive network of waterways has long provided the transportation infrastructure.
In India the Inland Waterways Authority of India formulates policy for and develops and maintains an extensive system of national waterways, while the publicly owned Central Inland Water Transport Corporation, Ltd., is responsible for transporting cargo in the waterway system and maintains the transport vessels as well as the facilities at several ports.
The country also has an extensive network of navigable waterways comprising lakes, rivers, and canals.
Joining Jules Dufaure's government as minister of public works the next year, he directed a policy often called the Freycinet Plan whereby the government purchased railroads and built extensive new railways and waterways.
Due to its flat top leaf structure, it covers extensive areas of open waterways.
These events can cause deoxygenation of waterways and extensive fish mortality.
