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Canals
A canal is another name for an artificial waterway. Canals are man-made channels constructed to allow water transportation, irrigation, or drainage.
A canal is usually a man-made waterway for travel or for draining and watering land.
The purpose of a canal is to provide a waterway for ships to pass through. A canal that went under
man-made waterway: canal, aqueduct, lock system
A. J. Forward has written: 'The Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay waterway' -- subject(s): Canals, Canaux
canals were popular until 1850, then steamboats became the most used.
The most common ones are canals. Humans also make other water infrastructure like dams, reservoirs and lakes.
A canal is a man-made waterway for travel or for draining or watering land. Canals are also made by modifying rivers, but then usually called "navigations".
The Grand Canal, the Royal Canal, the Ballyconnell and Ballinamore Canal now known as the Shannon-Erne Waterway, are just some of the canals. There are some other canals that are closed, but could be re-opened at some point, as this is being looked into, like the Ulster Canal and the Newry Canal.
A relief canal is a channel dug, or built up, to carry away surplus water from a river or waterway to prevent it bursting its banks and flooding.
It is a long flat bottomed boat for carrying freight on canals or rivers, either under its own power or towed