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Some of the worst-hit regions in 2005 lay along the Mithi River, a waterway clogged by silt, plastic and sewage that runs through the thickly populated and industrial areas of the city before draining into the Arabian Sea.
One hundred yards of chugging down a busy urban waterway and "otter!" shouted our friend Laura, and we passed within two metres of a happy-looking beast.
But Iran has threatened to close the waterway before, most recently in 2012 in response to Western sanctions.
A calm brown waterway flows beneath the bridge, interlaced with palm-treed fingers of land; a chaos of water towers, cranes and derricks is revealed in the distance.
But the Panama Canal Authority, a semi-autonomous government agency which has run the canal since the United States handed it over to Panama in 2000, says that the waterway will be running at its full capacity by 2009.The authority has drawn up an ambitious plan to double capacity and to accommodate "post-Panamax" ships, which are increasingly common.
At the tail end of the property frenzy, with impeccably disastrous timing, developers at last managed to put up a fancy high-rise condo-and-retail behemoth that now dominates the area between the intracoastal waterway and the sea.
What was once a puzzle how to break a waterway through the South-East Asian landmass has become instead a rush to circumvent smaller-scale obstacles, like antiquated ports and unpaved wilds, to speed trade around the Asian continent.There is more at stake than the Burmese hinterland.
An optimistic bunch of them depicted a curious feature on their early maps of Malaya a trans-peninsular waterway some distance south of the mid-point of the peninsula (visible in this map, to the left, if you reverse north and south).
Whenever a local foible or tradition grabbed his interest, such as the country's idiosyncratic waterway laws, he would research it exhaustively.In this section Spiritual and temporal Blast from the past Mandarin mogul Little Hitler Paper promises Reprints Related items The sage of AquariusDec 9th 1999All this led to jibes of "going native" from fellow Westerners.
In India the dying make pilgrimages to sacred sites, such as Varanasi, to be cremated and released into the River Ganges, India's holiest waterway.
Gerard Koeppel, a journalist, shows a scholarly fascination for the precise details of the legislative progress of the Erie Canal, the waterway that, in 1825, joined the Great Lakes to the Hudson river and so to the Atlantic ocean at New York City.
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The term "waterway" functions primarily as a noun , referring to a body of water that is navigable. As Ludwig AI confirms, it's a commonly used term. Examples include the Panama Canal or a local river used for transportation.
Expression frequency: Very common
