Canalised

Between Minden and the North Sea, humans have largely canalised the river, permitting ships of up to 1,200 tons to navigate it.

Ebrey, Cambridge Illustrated History of China, 116. The Grand Canal at this time was not a continuous, man-made canal but a collection of often non-contiguous artificial cuts and canalised or natural rivers.

Most of the springs from which many of these streams emanate are now covered in concrete and canalised, accounting for the fact that the names of early farms in the area often end with "fontein", meaning "spring" in Afrikaans.

Southern Canal The junction of the Lu Canal and South Canal The fifth section of the canal extends for a distance of convert from Linqing to Tianjin along the course of the canalised Wei River.

The branch of the Meuse leading directly to the sea eventually silted up, (and now forms the Oude Maasje stream), but in 1904 the canalised Bergse Maas was dug to take over the functions of the silted-up branch.

The Yeo may already have been straightened and canalised before Roman occupation.

The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalised Sió is the only outflow.