The first major canal project in the United States was the Erie Canal. It connected the St. Lawrence River with the Great Lakes bring commerce to the center of the new nation.
Erie Canal
A major goal was to link Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes with the Atlantic Coast through a canal.
Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project was created in 1997-02.
President Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for the building of the Panama Canal.
Panama Canal
The National Road was the first major highway in the United States. The initial stage of the project began in 1811; but it took a long period of time to build the road, and the project finally came to an end in 1839. In the midst of the building of the National Road, work began on the Erie Canal, starting in 1817. The canal was opened for traffic in October 1825. Thus, there were six years between when the National Road's construction began and the construction of the Erie Canal was started.
The Suez Canal.
it was being awesome
construction problems and yellow fever.
The Central Arizona Project.
Its a canal project in India, see here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sethusamudram
feb 17,1867 - The first ship passes through the suez canal