31.   They also used the bombs to staunch otherwise unstoppable gas gushers, and have created lakes, dug canals, and built dams.

32.   Egypt is working on a similar project in the Sinai, where it is digging a canal to develop the vast desert there which forms its eastern flank.

33.   Soldiers and civilians quickly started to dig a canal which drained off the flood waters towards the Nile River when the storm hit the city.