Today however, the river is highly polluted, becoming merely an open sewage canal.

In 1943, he began hiding twenty Jewish refugees in sewage canals.

It is also a time of paving the streets with stone, sewage canals and communal facilities.

"Nothing but a sewage canal, unfit for human use," the Mayor said.

Not a good idea, concluded Napoleon, who ordered construction of the first underground sewage canals to take the waste away from the river.

Maybe I've given the impression that the real me looks like something dredged out of a sewage canal after a three-month swim.

Brown youths with adzes spied by the old queen across a sewage canal.

He also found new uses for many of the old structures, and turned the former sewage canal into a method of cleansing the site.

A new canal has taken the place of the sewage canal, but is now flowing with fresh rainwater.

However, it has been turned into a sewage canal due to over dumping of garbage.