Electronic survey will see Scotland´s derelict canals transformed
(WorldNews Environment)

Register for our free newsletter THE future of Scotland´s canals will be shaped online. A new app, developed by Stanford University in California, will allow users to tell canal managers what they love - and hate - about waterways across the country. And the boss of Scottish Canals says it´s part of a vital new step in helping make them more relevant in the 21st Century. Their vision is that more of us than ever will be spending our leisure time - and even living - down on the water. It´s an astonishing transformation of what was once the network that powered the country´s industrial heritage but then became weed-choked, rotting eyesores. Scottish Canals´ chief...