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The Grand Canal (Chinese: 大运河; pinyin: Dà yùnhé) is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.
The Grand Canal of China, completed in the 7th century AD and measuring 1,794 kilometres (1,115 mi). The California Aqueduct , near Sacramento, is 715 km (444 mi) long. The Great Manmade River is a vast underground network of pipes 1,600 km (990 mi) in the Sahara desert , transporting water from an immense aquifer to the largest cities in the ...
The GRAND Canal would stabilize water levels in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River and improve water quality. The GRAND Canal system would also deliver new fresh water from the James Bay dyke-enclosure, via the Great Lakes, to many water deficit areas in Canada and the United States. The project was estimated in 1994 to cost C$100 billion ...
A constructed functional rill is a small canal or aqueduct of stone, brick, concrete, or other lining material, usually rectilinear in cross section, for water transportation from a source such as a river, spring, reservoir, qanat, or aqueduct for domestic consumption or agricultural irrigation of crop land uses.
The Grand Canal is the oldest remaining pioneer canal on the north side of the Salt River. The canal was once lined with towering cottonwood trees and was a popular recreation spot for Phoenicians. [3] It was planned in 1877 and constructed in 1878 by the Grand Canal Company. [4]
The canal was built on a grand scale, with oval shaped locks 30.5 m (100 ft) long, 6 m (20 ft) wide at the gates and 11 m (36 ft) wide in the middle. This design was intended to resist the collapse of the walls that happened early in the project.
The headwater of the Changzhou Ancient Canal is derives from Grate Kei Lane [2] and reaches Dongpo Park (Chinese: 东坡公园) in the north.If one takes the Huafang Ship [3] from Grate dustpan-shaped vessel lane wharf from which Qianlong Emperor has asored [clarification needed] several times, there is an ancient alley full of historical sites, archaic rhyme and literary quotations.
The Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project, informally the Nicaragua Canal (Spanish: Canal de Nicaragua, also referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal, or the Grand Interoceanic Canal) was a proposed shipping route through Nicaragua to connect the Caribbean Sea (and therefore the Atlantic Ocean) with the Pacific Ocean.