Watercourse

A watercourse is the channel that a flowing body of water follows.[1]

The Amazon River in Brazil

In the UK, some aspects of criminal law, such as the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951, specify that a watercourse includes those rivers which are dry for part of the year.[2]

In some jurisdictions, owners of land over which the water flows may have the legal right to use or retain some or much of that water.[3] This right may extend to estuaries, rivers, streams, anabranches[4] and canals.[5]

See also

References
  1. Shannonhouse, Royal G. (1961). "Some Principles of Water Law in the Southeast". Mercer Law Review. 13: 344.
  2. "Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951". legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  3. Jones, J.G. (1965). "Water Rights in Louisiana". Louisiana Law Review. 16 (3): 500.
  4. North, Colin P. "Recognition of the Sedimentary Architecture of Dryland Anabranching (Anastomosing) Rivers". Journal of Sedimentary Research. 77 (11): 925–938. doi:10.2110/jsr.2007.089.
  5. "Watercourse". FEMA. Archived from the original on 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
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