watercourse
Example Sentences
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But decades of over-use, coupled with years of drought, have put crippling strain on a watercourse whose management has always been based on an over-allocation of available resources.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Due to the possibility of river pollution, the council advised the public not to enter the watercourse of the rivers and not allow their dogs to swim in the water until the investigations were complete.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Some have even ditched fishing altogether because it is more profitable to sell the plastic waste they trawl out of the river, the world's second-most powerful watercourse after the Amazon.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
And in May, the company was ordered to pay £350,000 after a watercourse in North Yorkshire was polluted with sewage.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
The road was more like a watercourse than a highway.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
