canal

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A short walk along an irrigation canal leads to a weathered observation deck rising two stories above a patchwork of saturated flats where saltgrass, iodine bush and cattail take root.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

It was created by a break in a canal carrying water from the Colorado River in the early 1900s.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Root canal infections can allow bacteria to enter the bloodstream.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

In August 2014, local newspaper Houma Today reported Ashley Ann Worrell, 31, and her three-year-old daughter Delaney Rae Lirette died after their pick-up overturned into a canal.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

She had absentmindedly let the crowd carry her along like a current, and they had pulled her away from the main canal, onto a narrow street.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat