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river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

estuaries An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environment ...

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strait A strait is an oceanic landform connecting two seas or two other large areas of water. The surface water generally flows at the same elevation on both sides and through the strait in either direction. Most commonly, it is a narrow ocean channe ...

s) and artificial (

reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

canal Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow un ...

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waterway A waterway is any navigable body of water. Broad distinctions are useful to avoid ambiguity, and disambiguation will be of varying importance depending on the nuance of the equivalent word in other languages. A first distinction is necessary b ...

Waterways lists

Natural waterways

* List of estuaries in England * List of straits in the United States * List of watercourses in Western Australia * List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area

Artificial waterways

Canals

* List of canals in Australia * List of canals in Belgium * List of canals in France * List of canals in Canada *

List of canals in Germany This is a list of navigable canals that are at least partially located in Germany. The canals are listed here in alphabetic order of the name (without generic). Currently navigable canals Formerly navigable canals Incomplete navigable ...

List of canals in Ireland :''This article covers the whole of Ireland, that is, covering both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland'' Navigable canals * Ardnacrusha Canal * Grand Canal *Jamestown Canal * Lecarrow Canal *Newry Ship Canal * Royal Canal *Shannon–E ...

List of canals in Pakistan Pakistan has one of the largest man-made canal systems in the world providing irrigation facilities to 48 million acres. Canal network of Pakistan consists of Main Canals, Branch Canals, Link Canals, Major distributaries, Minor distributaries, and ...

* List of canals in Switzerland *

List of canals of the United Kingdom ''Canal''s of the United Kingdom; see also Canals of the United Kingdom. The following list includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (e. ...

List of canals in the United States The following is a list of canals in the United States: Transportation canals in operation This list includes active canals and artificial waterways that are maintained for use by boats. While some abandoned canals and drainage canals have stret ...

List of canals in Massachusetts This list is intended to contain all significant canals and aqueducts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. It includes both vanished waterways and those that still exist. * Blackstone Canal, Grafton * Broad Canal, Cambridge * Broad Brook ...

List of canals in New York This is a list of canals in the state of New York, the artificial waterways built for drainage management or transportation. List The following canals have existed in New York, United States. * Baldwinsville Canal * Black River Canal *Cayuga ...

List of canals in Oregon List of canals in Oregon contains all canals identified by the USGS in the U.S. state of Oregon. The USGS defines a canal as a ''manmade waterway used by watercraft or for drainage, irrigation, mining, or water power (ditch, lateral)''. There a ...

List of canals in Texas Transportation canals *Intracoastal Waterway *Houston Ship Channel * Sabine–Neches Waterway Irrigation canals See Texas Irrigation Canals *Franklin Canal (Texas) * Riverside Canal (El Paso) *American Canal See also *Sheep Creek {{US canals ...

* List of Martian canals * List of aqueducts *

List of interoceanic canals The following is a list of interoceanic canals, that is, ''canals'' or ''canal proposals'', which form waterways for traffic to connect one ocean to another. List See also * List of transcontinental canals The following is a list of transcont ...

List of transcontinental canals The following is a list of transcontinental canals and waterways, that is, ''canals'' or ''canal proposals'', which allows waterway traffic to span across a continent or subcontinent. List See also * List of interoceanic canals * Lists of can ...

Others

* Lists of reservoirs and dams * List of locks and dams of the Ohio River * List of locks and dams of the Upper Mississippi River *

List of canal locks in the United Kingdom This is a selective list of canal locks in the United Kingdom which have unique features or are notable in some other way. This list is not comprehensive. Gallery Image:Bingley Five Rise Locks 1.JPG, Bingley Five Rise Image:Bow Locks low tid ...

Organizations about waterways

* List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom *

List of navigation authorities in the United States This List of navigation authorities in the United States is a link list for any navigation authority in the United States. U.S. government *United States Army Corps of Engineers *United States Coast Guard *United States Department of Homeland Secu ...

List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom This List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom is a list of links to waterway societies, charities, trusts, associations, clubs and other non-governmental waterway organisations, concerned with the restoration, regeneration and use of t ...