noun
definition
Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
Examples of watercourse in a Sentence
The former category comprises the maintenance of provincial roads, bridges and watercourse embankments;, secondary education, whenever this is n.ot provided for by private, institutions or by the state (elementary education being maintained by the communes), and the maintenance of foundlings and pauper lunatics.
A little south is the mouth of the Darror, a usually dry watercourse with a length of over 200 m., which rises, as the Gebi, in the north-east of the British protectorate.
Hanifa is its principal watercourse; its course is marked by an almost continuous series of palm groves and settlements, among which Deraiya the former, and Riad the present, capital of the Ibn Saud kingdom are the most extensive.
The bones of the animals consumed as food at this station were found in such numbers that 5 tons were collected in the construction of a watercourse which crossed the site.
The basement of the mill contains a watercourse which is perfect for modern micro hydropower technology capable of generating green electricity.
The kingfisher is found beside every watercourse, a black and white species (Ceryle rudis) being much more numerous than the common kingfisher.
The nest of one species, as observed by Robert Owen, is at the end of a hole bored in the bank of a watercourse, and the eggs are pure white and glossy (Ibis, 1861, p. 65).
Thus the figure and area of a surface watershed may not be coincident with that of the corresponding underground watershed; and the flow in any watercourse, especially from a small watershed, may, by reason of underground flow from or into other watersheds, be disproportionate to the area apparently drained by that watercourse.
Wherever, below the surface, there are pores or open fissures, water derived from rainfall is (except in the rare cases of displacement by gas) found at levels above the sea determined by the resistance of solids to its passage towards some neighbouring sea, lake or watercourse.
A post-medieval watercourse or pond in the southern portion of the site was investigated.
No direct discharge to the adjacent watercourse is permissible.
Color leaflet guide to route following this historic artificial watercourse.
Promotion of improved watercourse management has resulted in an increase in fencing off water margins to create buffer strips.
It is essential that any development in such areas should take account of this watercourse system.
Some loss of woodland and watercourse habitat will occur.. There are no direct impacts on protected species.
Hedge and watercourse protection measures Farmers are required to establish a protection zone in fields along hedges and water courses.
His name is now borne by a larger watercourse which flows some distance from the scene of his death.
The banks of a watercourse or sides of a valley are distinguished as the right and left bank respectively, the spectator being understood to be looking down the valley.