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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 w ...

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 environmen ...

, and straits) 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 flo ...

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locks Lock(s) may refer to: Common meanings *Lock and key, a mechanical device used to secure items of importance *Lock (water navigation), a device for boats to transit between different levels of water, as in a canal Arts and entertainment * ''Lock ...

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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 These are the straits of the United States. * Agate Pass in Puget Sound * Arthur Kill separates Staten Island and New Jersey * Carquinez Strait connects San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay in California * Chatham Strait between Chichagof Island and ...

List of watercourses in Western Australia Western Australia has many watercourses with gazetted names, including rivers, streams, brooks, creeks, gullies, anabranches and backwaters. This lis is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia. Gazetteer of Australia (1996). ...

List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area These watercourses (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area are grouped according to the bodies of water they flow into. Tributaries are listed under the watercourses they feed, sorted by the elevation of the confluence so tha ...

Artificial waterways

Canals

* List of canals in Australia *

List of canals in Belgium This is a list of canals in Belgium. *Albert Canal *Baudouin Canal *Blankenberg Canal *Blaton-Aat Canal *Bocholt-Herentals Canal *Bossuit-Kortrijk Canal *Bourgogne Canal *Briegden-Neerharen Canal *Bruges–Ostend Canal *Bruges-Sluis Canal *Brusse ...

List of canals in France This is a list of the navigable canals and rivers in France. For reference purposes, all waterways are listed, including many that have been abandoned for navigation, mostly in the period 1925-1955, but some in later years. Although several source ...

List of canals in Canada There exists a number of canals in Canada that are used as aqueducts, diversionary channels for power stations, and for shippings. Natural canals A natural canal exists between the Magaguadavic River and Lake Utopia outside St. George, New B ...

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 *

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

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 This is an incomplete list of Martian canals from the erroneous belief in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that "Martian canals" existed on the surface of the red planet. These canals were named by Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell ...

List of aqueducts This is a list of aqueducts. Africa Botswana *North-South Carrier Egypt * Aqueduct of the Nile (historic) *Bahr Yussef * Fresh Water Canal *Ibrahimiya Canal * Mahmoudiyah Canal * Sadat Canal (see also New Valley Project) * Sweet Water Canal L ...

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 This is a list of locks and dams of the Ohio River, which begins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at The Point in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ends at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, in Cairo ...

List of locks and dams of the Upper Mississippi River This is a list of current and former locks and dams of the Upper Mississippi River which ends at the Mississippi River's confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois. Locks and dams Expansion proposals for upper Mississippi locks The Ar ...

* List of canal locks in the United Kingdom

Organizations about waterways

List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom This List of navigation authorities in the United Kingdom is a list of links to any navigation authority in the United Kingdom, relating to any navigable waterway, aqueduct, canal, navigation, river or port. These include: * narrow cana ...

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 ...