Sentence examples for large canals from inspiring English sources

On small canals gates may be manually operated by a lever arm extending over the lock side; on large canals hydraulic, mechanical, or electrical power is used.

Following the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi government dedicated considerable resources to digging two large canals in the south of the country, with the apparent goal of improving irrigation and agricultural drainage.

Remingtonocetids and all cetaceans higher on the cladogram have small canals, but pakicetids have large canals.

The Hohokam tribe constructed over 500 mile of large canals and maintained them for centuries, an impressive feat of engineering.

All told, five large canals that originated from the dams in the Jordan Narrows were completed by 1883.

The Indus -- the world's tenth-largest river in terms of the water it carries -- has been plugged by 19 dams and is being sucked dry by 43 large canals.

Modern irrigation engineering work commenced about 1850, and, during the period of British administration, large canal systems were constructed.

If a surface water supply is used, a large canal or pipeline system is usually required to carry the water to the farms because the reservoir is likely to be distant from the point of use.

The plan proved unworkable, but Leonardo's activity led him to consider a plan, first advanced in the 13th century, to build a large canal that would bypass the unnavigable stretch of the Arno and connect Florence by water with the sea.

In the 1970s, a Peruvian archeologist had identified a large canal at Chavín de Huantar with built-in terraces, which he proposed were built to create sound from water rushing over edge.

We compare 47 measured vertical profiles of mean current velocity and longitudinal turbulence intensity (normalized by the shear velocity) that have been reported for medium-large rivers, a large canal, and laboratory flumes with classical models developed for turbulent flat plate boundary layer flows.