They are diminishing because of the dams and the canalisation of the Missisippi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Damn them « BuzzMachine] Reference

Many of our rivers have been changed forever by canalisation, by the encroachment of roads, by invasion by alien vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The canalisation of rivers, dams and dykes, combined with urbanisation, deforestation and wetland drainage, dramatically increased the destructive potential of floods, he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

If we suppose that some of the ˜pegs™ in Waddington's model are environmental factors, rather than genetic loci, then we can define separate notions of ˜environmental canalisation™ and ˜genetic canalisation™.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

I suggest that without the additional resources offered by the concept of adaptation Khalidi's concept of ˜information™ would collapse into a simple notion of covariance, and his analysis of innateness would be a version of the canalisation analysis discussed in the next section.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

Beginning with the straightening of the beds of old rivers and narrow channels connecting seas, the canals were then constructed where they were most needed; but as time passed on, and our water supply from rainfall became less and less, we were convinced of the necessity of adopting a complete system of canalisation in anticipation of the time when our polar snows would be our only source of supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

The first has been the canalisation, the fencing in of the tideways; the second has been the banking out of the general sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hills and the Sea] Reference

A scientific canalisation, with irrigation works inherited from the ancients, made the Mesopotamian Valley a rival of Kemi the Black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

There had been fine schemes, no doubt -- Rome a seaport, gigantic works, canalisation to enable vessels of heavy tonnage to come up to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3] Reference

The plan to reintroduce the sturgeon into the Danube requires a reform of the river's canalisation in order to give the fish more freedom to swim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Issues News Headlines] Reference

We have to consider things such as agricultural runoff, the impact of river modifications and canalisation, urban drainage, and the inclusion of fish passes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

In antiquity, so long as the canalisation of the country was properly carried out, the fertility of the alluvial plain enabled great and prosperous nations to have their home in the Euphrates valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hasisadra's Adventure] Reference

Project coordinator Georg Frank explained to Tierramérica that, in the past, the canalisation and construction of dams included the creation of so-called fish ladders, which allowed them to bypass the man-made obstacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Issues News Headlines] Reference

Without an elaborate system of canalisation, providing an escape for such sudden excesses of the supply of water, the annual floods of the Euphrates, and especially of the Tigris, must always be attended with risk, and often prove harmful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hasisadra's Adventure] Reference

Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground-what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

"re-canalisation" laparoscopic surgery - a reversal of family planning operation - on a woman who had lost both her children.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

"Oh yes, sir," replied he, again smiling; "you are anxious to know whether we really possess an elaborate system of canalisation upon Mars, and I can soon set your mind at rest upon that point.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference

4.3 Innateness as canalisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristics] Reference

Scheldt river, affluents of, 48, 50; canals connected with, 48, 49; course of, and canalisation of, 49-51; crossing points of, between Cambrai and Condé, 50; passage of, at Lille, to be secured by the French left (Oct. 13).    From Wordnik.com.  [1914] Reference