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the headwaters of the Nile.

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Headwater streams showed continued improvements in quality between 1998 and 2007.
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Action throughout both locations and not limited to upper stretches and headwater.
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There is nothing similar in place on headwater streams in southwestern Pennsylvania.
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Has Beshear seen the precious headwater streams that are being buried by valley fills?
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His work is viewed at home as the headwater of the great streams in Russian literature.
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In Tibetan, the headwater streams of the Tuotuo are called Naqinqu.
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The mountains also protect headwater streams that provide drinking water to millions of people.
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The fill buried headwater channels that had carried water down to a stream called Laurel Fork.
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Headwater has a new 10-day cycling tour of California's vineyards.
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More examples
  • The source of a river; "the headwaters of the Nile"
  • Headwater is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Forming in North Vancouver in with musicians Chris Olson, Jonas Shandel and Matt Bryant, Olson left the group early on due to artistic differences to begin a solo career. ...
  • (Headwaters) upstream section of the river before the main tributaries join it. This section is typically much smaller in width and flow than the main section of the river.
  • (Headwaters) means the point on a non-tidal stream above which the average annual flow is less than five cubic feet per second (cfs). ...
  • (headwaters) unbranched tributaries of a stream
  • (Headwaters) It is a site where the flume empties its waters into a natural canal that gives shape to the river. Here the trout have a large flow of food and the headwaters offer very good shelter, as well as oxygen.
  • (Headwaters) The source, or upper part, of a stream. Often used in discussing water rights related to wilderness or other federal land designations.
  • The waters immediately upstream of a dam. For power dams, also referred to as the water in the impoundment which supplies the turbines (see also forebay).
  • (1) The source of a stream. (2) The water upstream from a structure or point on a stream.