watercourses

The issue is, cows poo in fields, the rain comes and washes it into watercourses.

It forms dense thickets that choke hillsides and watercourses, and interfere with the movement of wildlife.

You need to make sure that the watercourses are suitable for fishes and other animals.

The UK Environment Agency says watercourses (including rivers) in England can be privately owned.

Rainforests don't run out of water despite the presence of trees along their watercourses.

Of course the cost advantage of water transport via natural watercourses continues to this day, and has been very influential in world history.

Lead batteries contain not just lead, but the H2SO4 needed to dissolve large amounts of it and transport it through watercourses when the plastic case inevitably cracks.

A minimum of sudden deep erosion and therefore sideways diversion of blocked watercourses would be necessary for beavers to get established and shape the landscape so in the East they did.

It was remarkable how one of the first movements after withdrawing from the EU was to change the rules so water companies could dump sewage and render watercourses unsafe and polluted.

Makes me wonder how hard it would be to show things like historical coastlines in England and the Netherlands, or historical watercourses, but I guess that could be both hard to visualize, and you'd have to compile that data from a lot of different sources.

The best thing about using watercourses as your heat source for heat-pumps - the water flow naturally takes away your "colder" output and brings you more "warmer".

If you are paddling on a river, lake or other waters where there is a disputed public right of navigation, then it could be alleged you may be trespassing." [1] I think watercourses are a proper subset of waterways, with lakes being an example of waterways that aren't watercourses.