surface watercourse

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• Surface runoff — Runoff flowing into a stormwater drain Surface runoff is the water flow that occurs when soil is infiltrated to full capacity and excess water from rain, meltwater, or other sources flows over the land. This is a major component of the water… …   Wikipedia

• watercourse — A stream of water flowing in a definite direction or course in a bed with banks. A natural channel, having a well defined existence, with running water supplied from a definite source. Snyder v Platte Valley Pub. Power & Irrig. Dist. 144 Neb 308 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• natural watercourse — Any well defined channel or arroyo in which surface waters flow in times of heavy rain, irrespective of the fact that the land is cultivated in dry seasons or that in certain places the water of the depression spreads out and no longer flows in a …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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• subterranean cut-off —    The diversion underground of a surface watercourse beneath a surface meander neck, marked by a swallow hole on the upstream side and a spring on the downstream side [19].    See also stream piracy …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• inlet cave —    A cave developed beneath a swallow hole where a surface watercourse first passes underground in karst limestone [19] …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• percolation water —    Autochthonous karst water which permeates directly through karst limestone without using a surface watercourse [19] …   Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

• Hydropolitics in the Nile Basin — Essay like|article|date=December 2007The Nile River is subject to political interactions. It is the world s longest river flowing 6,700 kilometers through ten countries in northeastern Africa – Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo… …   Wikipedia

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• Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses — The Convention on the Law of Non Navigational Uses of International Watercourses is a document adopted by the United Nations on May 21, 1997 pertaining to the uses and conservation of all waters that cross international boundaries, including both …   Wikipedia