Sentence examples for old waterways from inspiring English sources

(If you're a tourist-biker, it makes sense to stick to the old waterways: aesthetics will reward your prudence).

With no evidence of an underground water table or any deep interventions, Mr. Sanday has invited James Goodman, a hydrologist in Geneva to research and map the course of the old waterways.

We reach the parkland to the north of the site: trees and walkways and benches, mounds and dips, all wrapped around one of the old waterways that used to be clogged with chemical sludge.

Another manmade feature, this is an old waterway first dug, perhaps, in Roman times.

Newly built sections usually followed a straight line between towns, and other sections were reconstructions of older waterways.

With Cynthia in the lead, we traipsed through terraced green rice paddies, along slippery brown riverbanks and centuries-old waterways in search of demon trash.

His suspicions were raised during an otherwise idyllic summer holiday on the beautiful Canal du Midi, Europe's oldest waterway.

The contractors have threatened to walk out on the project, which will allow huge tankers to pass through the 100-year-old waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific, if no agreement is reached by January 20th.

But with just two feet to spare on each side, it is a tight squeeze.With up to 38 big ships passing through it each day, the 90-year-old waterway is now at the edge of its capacity.

THE $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal is one of the world's great infrastructure projects, aimed at enabling giant mega-tankers to pass through the 100-year-old waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Walk in a nutshell Trot alongside a 400-year-old waterway that cuts through the heart of historic Cambridge before plunging off the beaten track into the city's abundant allotments.