When it is fully operational, the bridge will be opened and closed by Scottish Canals.
Today, water jousters still take the sport seriously in rivers and canals throughout France.
We then flew to Kirklareli, a remote village where the bank had helped finance irrigation canals.
They brought in European entrepreneurs and European capital to build railroads, canals and other improvements.
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Then headphones were placed on anthropometrically correct mannequins that had microphones inserted into their ear canals.
The first railways couldn't rival canals on cost or reliability, let alone lobbying power.
Partly as a result, the land irrigated by canals has decreased by 35% since 1990.
It is crisscrossed with canals and irrigation ditches built by U.S. foreign aid in the 1950s.
Developments in roads, railways and canals made or broke towns in the 19th century.
He led a squad of Marines in Marjah, a farm village crisscrossed by irrigation canals.
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To experience the work of the chinampas first hand, Saavedra treated us to a feast as we toured the canals.
The canals were primarily built during the 19th century to accommodate Britain's rapid industrialization and manufacturing boom.
These days, Toy is doing more routine work , such as diving in canals looking for stolen cars.
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But there simply isn't enough water - the irrigation canals have not been repaired, the canals remain dry.
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Petersburg is also sometimes called the Venice of the North because of the canals that crisscross the city.
Gates have been installed at critical canals to help block water from entering the city during storm surges.
As early as 2006 the Corps repaired and improved the outfall canals to levels stronger than before Katrina.
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There were no canals, no little green men, no signs of life whatsoever.
Much of the early funding was raised by volunteers from the Droitwich Canals Trust, which was formed in 1973.
It also reiterated its advice to always avoid swimming in rivers and canals unless it is an organised event.
To address this problem, drainage canals were built going from the heart of the city out to Lake Pontchartrain.
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Early adaptation infrastructure that adds dikes, improves pumping and canals and prevents erosion, the report concludes, would pay off.
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During the 1830s, U.S. states got into the business of building railroads and canals, and they all lost money.
The property also has a series of waterfalls, fountains, canals, a lagoon, a koi pond and a swimming pool.
By means of canals and huge concrete aquaducts, they took the rivers' waters to irrigate vast areas of cotton.
Many land deals are only at the stage of negotiations or basic infrastructure development, such as canals and roads.
It was breaches along these canals in the hours after Katrina passed that began the inundation of the city.
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To prevent flooding, a system of pumps, canals and levees was put in place by the Army Corps of Engineers.
In recent years prefab, boxy housing units with no pretense to a boating heritage have been floated onto the canals.
The Canals and River Trust (CRT) legally hold health and safety responsibility for the lock and part of the weir.
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