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- noun The
source of ariver , the set ofstreams thatfeed into the river's beginning.
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Examples
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Needless to say he spent a lot of time bent double under the foliage dapping in headwaters 4 feet wide.
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Needless to say he spent a lot of time bent double under the foliage dapping in headwaters 4 feet wide.
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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.
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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.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local juditupp 2010
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Like Colorado, Wyoming is a "headwaters" state - the source of many of the West's great rivers.
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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.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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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.
To the Source Judith Flanders 2011
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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.
Wonk Room » ACCCE’s Joe Lucas Says Mountaintop Removal Solves ‘Lack Of Flat Space’ In Appalachia 2009
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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.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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Not so much in the headwaters of the Colorado and Green River feeding Lake Powell, at 67% of normal.
Think Progress » Rep. Steve King floats secession as possible response to health care reform. 2010
skipvia commented on the word headwaters
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February 28, 2008