1.   The diversion of the Danube into a new canal in October caused the deaths of thousands of fish and extensive damage to riverside vegetation.

2.   Angiogenesis aims to provide permanent relief by growing new canals to irrigate parched heart muscles.

3.   A major portion of the middle route should also be finished by then, but will require a lengthy new canal and major expansion of an existing reservoir.

4.   Dam proponents say that more barges and new canals will protect the fish, insisting that human ingenuity will rise above the challenge of nature.

5.   In addition, early in the next century the new canal administration will have to decide whether to modernize the waterway by building an additional set of locks.

6.   It has underwritten a feasibility study for construction of new canal locks and is offering to finance a new bridge on extraordinarily generous terms.

7.   The effort to mount a new canal plan has been the subject of intense and often contradictory political speculation.

8.   Will a new canal be built?

9.   Construction of new canals, dams and the deepening of parts of the river, threaten vital wetland ecosystems, the conservation group said.

10.   Egypt also has opened a new canal from the Nile that draws water to irrigate land in the northern Sinai Peninsula.