Rivers

Rivers

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.

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Integrated catchment management

Water bodies; Rivers

This is a subset of environmental planning which approaches sustainable resource management from a catchment perspective, in contrast to a piecemeal approach that artificially separates land ...

Drainage system

Water bodies; Rivers

This is a pattern formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin. There are different types of drainage system. Dendritic drainage system, Rectangular drainage system, ...

Interbasin transfer

Water bodies; Rivers

This is the transfer of water from one river basin to another. The purpose of an interbasin transfer can be to generate hydropower, to alleviate water shortages in the receiving basin, or both.

Gorge

Water bodies; Rivers

This is occasionally spelled'''cañon'''is a deep ravine between cliffs often carved from the landscape by a river. Rivers have a natural tendency to reach a baseline elevation, which is the same ...

This is a term in geomorphology describes a location in a river or channel where there is a sharp change in channel slope, such as a waterfall or lake, resulting from differential rates of erosion ...

Drainage basin

Water bodies; Rivers

This is an extent or area of land where surface water from rain and melting snow or ice converges to a single point, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a ...

Plunge pool

Water bodies; Rivers

It is a natural hydrologic fluvial landform feature or a constructed recreational garden feature. It is a stream pool, lake, or pond that is small in diameter, but deep. They can be small-diameter ...