11.   As in much of fast-growing China, factories and newly built homes have displaced farmland so rapidly that little attention has been paid to building drainage channels.

12.   Drainage channels were also found among the terraces.

13.   The drainage channel designed to divert floodwaters to the nearby Chari River passes through the center of Sullana.

14.   The plane crashed into a drainage channel, splitting into two pieces, he said.

15.   The plane crashed nose first into a drainage channel in the shantytown, splitting into two pieces, he said.

16.   The pollution was being discharged into a drainage channel that feeds the Cibuco River from the plant in Vega Baja, the statement said.

17.   Drainage channels for rainwater and effluent only cover half the city.

18.   Normal drainage channels in these towns were clogged with mudflow, and strong rains from typhoon Angela would cause further flooding, he said.

19.   The few drainage channels that exist are blocked.