Sentence examples for flowing watercourses from inspiring English sources

It is considered that the flows of the Stava (Italy), Buffalo Creek (USA) and Bafokeng (South Africa) events transformed into turbulent stream-flows as a result of their confinement in flowing watercourses (Hunter and Fell 2001).

—Edward Abbey, Down the River A constellation of synonyms exist for the word "river": what distinguishes these naturally flowing watercourses from a beck, bourn, brook, burn, creek, rill, rivulet, runnel, or tributary may come down to the size of the stream or may simply be a regional preference.

This phenomenon becomes particularly significant where the tailings enter an actively flowing watercourse.

An innovative network based on transplanted bryophytes providing a continuous monitoring of the priority substances Cd, Hg, Ni, and Pb and other trace elements (Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn) was designed for the watercourses flowing across an industrial district of NE Italy where both permitted and illegal wastes cause sporadic, intermittent or chronic events of environmental alteration.

The front of the Allied position was defined by a series of small watercourses flowing from south to north.

The route crosses no major watercourses, although creeks adjacent to or spanned by the route drain into the Pazinčica and Boljunčica rivers, or directly into the Adriatic Sea in the case of watercourses flowing down Učka's eastern slopes.

It includes the flow of groundwater not collected by watercourses flowing into the sea, enclosed lakes and areas of evaporation.

The Met Office warned: "widespread flooding will lead to high levels of disruption to travel, deep, fast-flowing watercourses and an associated possible danger to life".

The land slopes down towards the south and the south-flowing watercourses dissipate in the Haud plateau.

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, a sea or another river.

The resources of these localised aquifer systems are dependent on indirect recharge from intermittent flows in watercourses.