Revived canals take pressure off road transport
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Britain's network of navigable canals, the liquid highway of England's industrial revolution, is being revived after decades of disuse to help relieve commercial congestion on roads.
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A new approach to managing floods could result in some areas being flooded in Wales.
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By Tony Henderson  A machine which cleans roads and other surfaces by blasting out up to six gallons of high pressure water a minute was put through its paces yesterday.
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The white tents are up along the banks of the Charles River, and cars towing rowing shells are making their way along Storrow and Memorial drives. Just as the moving vans around Labor Day are a sure sign students are back in town, the influx of boats in late October is a sign that the Head of the Charles Regatta ...
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 7--Workers on Tuesday towed to safety a piece of motorized track equipment that dangled from a bridge over the Columbia River.
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By YP Rajesh and Suresh Seshadri in Cuddalore and Madras, India. RESCUE workers pulled rotting corpses from canals and water-logged fields in India today, as the government warned the death toll of more than
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By Bacques, Lisa  A project to expand and deepen the locks on the Industrial Canal is in a holding pattern until the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completes an environmental impact statement to comply with a court order.  In October 2006, U.S.
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Blockades are being organised over government funding cuts that will lead to 180 job losses at British Waterways.
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By The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 19--Way back when, you could drive through West Texas and see irrigation canals filled with water. Conservation wasn't in vogue in the '50s and '60s, so the runoff would just collect along the road.
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Motorway dropped from radical traffic management scheme aimed at reducing congestion on major roads
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Thousands of homes could be spared flooding misery if a more sustainable approach is taken, campaigners say.
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Flood waters close one of England's main rail routes, stop traffic on motorways and threaten homes across the country.
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The Army Corps of Engineers closed a gate on a suburban canal as heavy rains lashed the flood-prone city, raising fears that climbing waters threatened the walls holding them back.
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By MARY HURST  FERNANDINA BEACH - The Florida Department of Transportation says the city has two choices for how the state agency will fix the saltwater intrusion problem in the Egans Creek Greenway south of Jasmine Street: Let the area convert to salt marsh or return it to fresh water.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 4--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 24--A lot has changed in the eight years since farmland lovers battled a plan to build a water pipeline from Louisville to Lexington and the Urban County Council endorsed a Kentucky River solution.
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Billions of pounds have been splashed on repairing worn underground pipes since the privatisation of Britain&#039;s water industry in 1989, but network operators are still struggling to plug the leaks.