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Watercourse

A watercourse is any flowing body of water

Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
. These include river

River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
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Stream

A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current , confined within a stream bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, Burn , creek, crick, kill, lick , rill, river syke, bayou, rivu...
s, brook

Brook

A brook is a small stream. The word may also refer to:...
s, anabranch

Anabranch

An anabranch is a section of a river or stream that diverts from the main watercourse channel and rejoins the mainstem downstream.In the simplest case, an island or rock in the river creates a main course and an anabranch course; a more significant anabranch would diverge for a distance of several kilometres before rejoining....
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A watercourse is any flowing body of water

Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
. These include river

River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
s, stream

Stream

A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current , confined within a stream bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, Burn , creek, crick, kill, lick , rill, river syke, bayou, rivu...
s, brook

Brook

A brook is a small stream. The word may also refer to:...
s, anabranch

Anabranch

An anabranch is a section of a river or stream that diverts from the main watercourse channel and rejoins the mainstem downstream.In the simplest case, an island or rock in the river creates a main course and an anabranch course; a more significant anabranch would diverge for a distance of several kilometres before rejoining....
es et cetera.

See also

Environmental flow
Environmental flow

Environmental flow is the amount of water needed in a watercourse to maintain healthy, natural ecosystems. The term is used in the context of rivers which have been dammed, with most or all of the flow trapped by the dam — the failure to provide an environmental flow can have serious ecological consequences....
Waterway
Waterway

A waterway is any navigable body of water. These include rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals. In order for a waterway to be navigable, it must meet several criteria:...