Meanings of artificial lakes in English

The artificial lakes that fed the island's complex irrigation system were almost empty.

Dams radically alter geography by diverting rivers, creating artificial lakes and changing flood patterns.

Even old artificial lakes have acquired a greater dignity.

There are also artificial lakes nearby for swimming.

Water is currently being drained to make way for a greater network of canals and artificial lakes.

Lake Spaulding, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world, is a creation of this same company.

They built great military works surrounded by walls and ditches, with artificial lakes in the centre to supply water.

Drought, however, makes the formation of artificial lakes and reservoirs necessary to the full development of its agricultural wealth.

Eight hundred years of climatic control and the great artificial lakes that had drowned the deserts had seen to that.

Sometimes as many as twenty families united in the purchase of an estate, and constructed artificial lakes large enough to sail upon.

They swim and curve their necks in artificial lakes on the estates of the wealthy to delight the eyes of the favorites of Fortune.

Extensive spaces in the woods were thus inundated, and the colony of beavers lived for long years on the banks of their artificial lakes.

That was it: the garden of philosophy,- agardenmade by man, in which there were little artificial lakes and shrubbery set out in attractive designs.

Then I noticed several strangely shaped mounds and artificial lakes in the morning mist where none had been before, and realised what was going on.

Boasting artificial lakes and date orchards, the site totals 136 buildings and covers more than 400 hectares (1,000 acres), according to the U.S. Army.

Artificial lakes are made for the cultivation of fish caught in Antipodean streams.