Canals

Pollutants found in the Venice canals can include sewage, debris, oil from boats, and chemicals from runoff. These pollutants can degrade water quality, harm marine life, and impact the overall health of the ecosystem. Efforts are being made to reduce pollution in the canals through improved waste management and environmental regulations.

heavy rains there provide plenty of fresh water to operate the locks. Lake Nicaragua was the most tempting location for an interocean canal before construction in panam began, but an earthquake destroyed it. It had both negative and positive influence.

Canals are used for transportation of goods and people, irrigation for agriculture, drainage of waterlogged areas, and as a source of water supply for various purposes. They are man-made waterways that provide an efficient way to move water from one place to another.

The Erie Canal opened in 1825. It connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, facilitating transportation and trade between the east coast and the Midwest.

The Pacific Ocean end of the Panama Canal is located on the western side near Panama City. The canal allows ships to travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean (or vice versa) by passing through a series of locks and channels.

Both Three Mile Island and Love Canal were environmental disasters in the United States. Three Mile Island was a partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor in 1979, resulting in radiation leakage. Love Canal was a neighborhood in New York that was built on a toxic waste dump, causing widespread health issues for residents.

Canada has a network of over 1,600 canals. Many of these canals are part of the historic Rideau Canal system which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The state in the US closest to the Panama Canal is Florida. The southern tip of Florida is about 880 miles from the Panama Canal.

The canal is wholly located within the sovereign territory of Egypt. However, for various periods of time in the 20th century, Israel occupied Sinai on the east bank of the canal.

The canal was the work of a French company. The workforce was a "forced labor" project.

The latitude and longitude of the Panama Canal is 9 degrees north and 79 degrees west.

The Panama canal connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

The Suez canal connects the Red sea to the Mediterranean sea

The Kiel canal connects the North sea to the Baltic sea

The Corinth canal connects the Ionian sea to the Aegean sea.

The Caledonian canal connects the Irish sea to the North sea.

The Gota canal connects the North sea to the Baltic sea.

The Grantia Canal System is called the "Sycon (syconoid) Canal System." This means that the canals from the sponges inside (excurrent canals) and those from the outside (incurrent canals) of its body wall end blindly, but are connected at right angles by openings called prosopyles. This type of canal system is intermediate in canal complexity. The canals are the pathways the water takes through the sponge.

Between 2 and 3 meters, although on average 2.4m

Approximately 0.1% of the Earth's surface is covered by canals.

7000km has been reduced between India and Europe.

The Suez Canal is in Egypt.

Farmers could use the water to water the crops

FIRST ANSWER: There were astounding engineering challenges due to the difference in sea level at the Atlantic vs. Pacific sides, but the thing that proved most difficult was the mosquito borne disease. Thousands of French, Panamanian and American workers dies as a result of malaria and other tropical pathogens.

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REPLY BY NigelG: +++

The "Astounding" part of the project was NOT the difference in sea-levels (due to tides). That is no real problem at all, needing only entrance locks as on the earlier, already-successful, Suez Canal. The real engineering difficulties for the Panama Canal were those of building a series of large locks and their feeders to take the canal over the central ridge of the isthmus. ' The first attempt, by the French, failed because the designer, de Lesseps, specified a sea-level route (with tidal locks) but he under-estimated the problems and cost of cutting through the ridge.

The Panama canal shortened the trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean by two thirds, from 12,000 miles to 4,000 miles. This was a great boost for the commercial activity between the USA's east and west coast States and for the trade between Europe and the east coast States of the USA, and Asia. It also considerably shortened the trade routes between all western States and countries in the Americas and Europe.

There are three sets of locks in the canal. A two-step flight at Miraflores, and a single flight at Pedro Miguel, lift ships from the Pacific up to Lake Gatun; then a triple flight at Gatun lowers them to the Atlantic side.

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While the canal is "always" open, there are certain times of day the major operations occur. The procession of the largest ships starts at each end in the early morning and they go through the locks in a group over about two hours. The public viewing areas at either end should be visited at about 8 AM to see the biggest ships going through the locks one after the other. The closing times of the public viewing areas is different at each end of the canal; make inquiries.

Canals were introduced during the Roman occupation of the south of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation. However, the Romans did create several navigable canals, such as the Foss Dyke.

The Bridgewater Canal, can claim to be the first modern artificial canal in Britain, opened in 1761 to carry coal.
Designed by James Brindley, and built for Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.

Gate is the name given to the lower barrier of a canal lock. A Canal lock is used to lower and raise the water to move boats along a waterway.

It wasn't originally built for the Suez Canal, but it was originally conceived for the Suez Canal. I have read accounts that range from the original concept being meant to resemble an Arab peasant woman, to her being meant to resemble the goddess Isis. As Bartholdi was working on the concept, he realized that he would never get the funding from Egypt, he later traveled to New York and reconceived his plans. The statue now most closely resembes the Greek Goddess Hera.