Headwater

Word HEADWATER
Character 9
Hyphenation head wa ter
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Definitions and meanings of "Headwater"

What do we mean by headwater?

The water from which a river rises; a source. noun

One of the upper tributaries of a river: usually in the plural. Also used adjectively. noun

The source and upper part of a stream; -- commonly used in the plural. noun

The source (and the initial part) of a stream noun

The source of a river noun

(chiefly in the plural) The source (and the initial part) of a stream

The act of getting ripped off when buying a kayak you suspect is good but is in fact is a made in China piece of garbage. Urban Dictionary

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The word "headwater" in example sentences

The river's future flows may be greatly diminished because of climate change affecting weather patterns in headwater areas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More than four decades since King's letter and the Kentucky movement to abolish strip-mining, Kentuckians and the nation have watched as close to 300 mountains and nearly 600,000 acres of hardwood forests, and hundreds of miles of headwater streams, have been irreversibly destroyed by mountaintop removal strip mining. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

Mountaintop removal is devastating to our mountains, our economy, and our communities, and HR 1310 will reverse a devastating Bush Administration rule change which allows toxic waste from mountaintop removal mining to be dumped directly into our headwater streams. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Burying headwater streams in the region also deprives millions on the east coast of clean drinking water -- it is yet another gift to the nation from Appalachia. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

Local residents, Sierra Club, and our allies working to protect a headwater stream in the beautiful Apple River watershed from being converted to a manure storage lagoon have won a major victory with Illinois EPA's denial of an essential permit for the project. ❋ Jack Darin (2011)

Since Rogers first came in office in 1981, an estimated 300 mountains and nearly 600,000 acres of hardwood forests, and hundreds of miles of headwater streams, have been irreversibly destroyed by mountaintop removal strip mining. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

Local residents, Sierra Club, and our allies working to protect a headwater stream in the beautiful Apple River watershed from being converted to a manure storage lagoon have won a major victory. ❋ Jack Darin (2011)

More than six years after Kentucky became the first state in the nation to introduce a bill that would halt the dumping of toxic coal mining wastes into headwater streams and effectively rein in the devastating fall-out of mountaintop removal operations, a group of affected coalfield residents, retired coal miners and bestselling authors have launched a sit-in in the office of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear this morning. ❋ Jeff Biggers (2011)

Forty years later, with more than 500 mountains, 1.2 million acres of hardwood forests and untold historic communities destroyed, over 2,000 miles of headwater streams jammed with toxic coal waste, and his beloved coalfield region mired in hopeless poverty, Hechler is running to end mountaintop removal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Exactly one year ago, EPA official John Pomponio testified before the Senate that mountaintop removal irreversibly destroyed headwater streams. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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A plethora of recent scientific research has shown that conductivity higher than about five times the normal level downstream from valley fills is associated with severe impairment of the ecological communities in Appalachian headwater streams. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My [kayak] [cracked], I [got] Headwatered! ❋ Kayakfishing4life (2019)

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