watercourse
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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
Scullion was one of the first people to spot pollution in the watercourse near Clonoe.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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
This is intended to ensure that the effluent does no damage to the watercourse it flows into.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2024
The road was more like a watercourse than a highway.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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