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
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
According to the Environment Agency, electric bikes pose a pollution risk because the batteries contain substances that can enter a watercourse if they remain submerged in water.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
The road was more like a watercourse than a highway.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
