Sentence examples for waterways for the from inspiring English sources

The Orinoco and its tributaries long have served as vast waterways for the indigenous inhabitants of the Venezuelan interior.

In the mid-80s, Meeker created a uniform signage system for the country's rivers and other navigable waterways for the Army Corps of Engineers.

Here The Plastics Revolution follow the tradition, performing their song, Light of Day, as they are punted along the waterways, for the Take Away Shows series by Black XS and Blogotheque, who travel round the world filming local bands.

He argued that we urgently needed more work to test soils and waterways for the presence of these chemicals and the levels at which they might be acting.

Documentary featuring home movies of the diehard enthusiasts and boat owners who helped to save the inland waterways for the nation and create a second golden age of the canals.

Some of these enthusiasts filmed their campaigns and their home movies tell the story of how, in the teeth of much political opposition, they saved the inland waterways for the nation and, more than 200 years after they were first built, created a second golden age of the canals.

The Chao Phraya constitutes a valuable waterway for the transport of the nation's traditional exports of teak and rice south to Bangkok, though less bulky commodities are now moved overland by road or rail.

Meanwhile, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 had given the United States control of the Mississippi River, and it became the main waterway for the movement of Midwestern produce via New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.

And then it's over; a five-minute burst of adrenaline on Colombia's Don Diego river before we float serenely down the lazily meandering waterway for the next two hours, admiring the scenery.

As already mentioned, the Nile River is still a vital waterway for the transportation of people and goods, especially in the flood season when motor transport is not feasible; river steamers still provide the only means of transport facilities in most of the area, especially in South Sudan and Sudan south of latitude 15° N, where motor transport is not usually possible from May to November.

The contamination, agency officials said, stems from the canal's history since its completion in the 1860s as a busy industrial waterway for the oil refineries, coal yards, concrete-mixing facilities and tanneries along its banks, and from being "a repository" of untreated industrial wastes and raw sewage and runoff.