watercourse

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This often results in huge holes in the ground, noxious spoil-heaps and polluted watercourses.
這常常會在地面上留下一個個巨大的坑，有毒的矸子山和污染的河道.
Watercourses once seemed as boundless as those pigeons that darkened the sky overhead, and the notion of protecting water was as silly as bottling it.
水資源曾經(jīng)很豐富，多的就像天空中黑壓壓的鴿子一樣數(shù)不過來。人們曾經(jīng)很傻地認為把水裝進瓶子里就是對水資源的保護。
Time and again, from New Mexico's antique irrigation codes to the UN Convention on International Watercourses, communities have studied water systems and redefined wise use.
從新墨西哥州的古老灌溉法典到聯(lián)合國國際水資源公約，相關人員已經(jīng)多次對水系統(tǒng)作了研究并對水資源的合理使用做了重新定義。

But they are living watercourses and once transformed into parks they have the potential to encircle and link the city.
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Much is washed off by rain, ending up in local watercourses where dissolved nutrients can cause algal blooms and kill fish.
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