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A road that never needed paving, just water that refused to stop moving.
means A navigable channel—river, canal, or strait—that boats and ships can travel along.
from A straightforward compound: 'water' plus 'way,' meaning simply a route made of water rather than land. Both halves come from Old English (wæter and weg), so the word has existed in plain, functional form for about as long as English itself—no hidden story, just two sturdy words shaking hands.
- oldest canals
- Mesopotamian irrigation canals predate 4000 BCE
- suez effect
- Cut Europe to Asia shipping distance by 7000 km
- us network
- Over 25,000 miles of commercially navigable waterways
- cheapest transport
- Barges move freight cheaper than trucks or trains