Headwaters

Word HEADWATERS
Character 10
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈhɛdˌwɑtɝz/

Definitions and meanings of "Headwaters"

What do we mean by headwaters?

The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.

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The word "headwaters" in example sentences

Needless to say he spent a lot of time bent double under the foliage dapping in headwaters 4 feet wide. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A watershed is the area representing all the land draining moisture from the highest elevations, usually referred to as the headwaters, to a specified outlet point. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Right now, the headwaters are the meetings that were held last Tuesday, the party leadership that those delegates will select, and what the newly elected precinct committee people do between now and the 2012 to reach out in their neighborhoods. ❋ Juditupp (2010)

Like Colorado, Wyoming is a "headwaters" state - the source of many of the West's great rivers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Another gringo who moved to Mexico "for the adventure", (like they were going to build a tree house at the headwaters of the Atoyac), was having a classic meltdown when the cashier at Superlake refused to accept his torn 500 peso note muttering something about "these people". arbon ❋ Unknown (2009)

Financial gain and political ends, both of which came to dominate later Western involvement in Africa, played little part: The search for the headwaters of the Nile began in 1856, a decade before the discovery of the diamond mines and gold fields of Africa. ❋ Judith Flanders (2011)

My goal: to get dropped by bush plane in the headwaters of one of these streams and spend a week floating, camping, and fishing for these incredible fish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

While the solid waste becomes valley fills, liquid waste is stored in massive, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, often built in the headwaters of a watershed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the headwaters of the scandal is the University's non-credible justification for sending in the police in the first place: "safety." ❋ Rik Seyman (2011)

Why, I nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the Stewart; and he saved my life on the Little Salmon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The final draft of the treaty gave the United States nearly all the land Congress had sought and far more than Spain or France intended: from the Atlantic in the east to the Mississippi in the west and from the Georgia frontier in the south to the St. Lawrence watershed, Great Lakes, and headwaters of the Mississippi in the north. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

If we let it, this could be the future of Bristol Bay, where Anglo American and Northern Dynasty are proposing to develop one of the largest open-pit mines in the world -- the Pebble Mine -- at the headwaters of our planet's most productive wild salmon habitat. ❋ Ashley Koff (2011)

A mile high and 10 miles northeast of Lincoln, Mont., melting snow and mountain springs form the headwaters of the Blackfoot, made famous in the novella and film "A River Runs Through It." ❋ Barbara Coombs Lee (2011)

Not so much in the headwaters of the Colorado and Green River feeding Lake Powell, at 67% of normal. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From the Mackenzie he went up the Little Peel to its headwaters, found a pass through the mountains, nearly starved to death on his way across to the Porcupine Hills, and eventually came out on the ❋ Unknown (2010)

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