The settlers had plans to remove water from the area and in the eighteen eighties developers began digging drainage canals.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

As part of the plan, the Army Corps of Engineers built roads, canals and water-control systems throughout South Florida.

VOA: special.2010.09.21

One of them said: "As soon as the canals at Vicksburg are finished, we are going to cut a canal across the upper part of Florida.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

So they built a system of canals to bring water down from the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

By this time, the Union soldiers had become experts at digging canals.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Boats also traveled along man-made canals which strengthened local economies.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Mister Lowell's book, "Mars and Its Canals."

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Many of these jobs are helping farmers at the same time: improving agricultural canals, rural roads,and planting trees to prevent erosion,for example.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

It made its backers rich. Financiers in the Washington,D.C., area also knew what canals meant to cities like Venice in Italy and Tsaritsyn - later called Stalingrad and Volgograd - in Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

It was the center of their universe. And it was called the 'hydraulic city' because it had really remarkably massive arrays of barays, which are these giant water tanks and a series of canals and interconnected waterways that was really unparalleled in the ancient world in that part of the world."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05