This article is a collection of lists of natural (

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

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 environm ...

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strait A strait is a water body connecting two seas or water basins. The surface water is, for the most part, at the same elevation on both sides and flows through the strait in both directions, even though the topography generally constricts the ...

s) and artificial (

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

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 ...

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waterway A waterway is any Navigability, 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 ways. A first distinction is ...

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, stream, brooks, stream, creeks, gully, gullies, anabranches and Backwater (river), backwaters. This lis is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Au ...

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 th ...

Artificial waterways

Canals

* List of canals in Australia * List of canals in Belgium *

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 *

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. The canal network of Pakistan consists of main canals, branch canals, link canals, major distributaries, minor distributaries, ...

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 The following list of canals in the United Kingdom, includes some systems that are navigable rivers with sections of canal (e.g. Aire and Calder Navigation) as well as "completely" artificial canals (e.g. Rochdale Canal). Canals in England ...

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. Although some abandoned canals and drainage canals have s ...

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

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 ...

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 {{US canals Texas Canals C ...

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 Libya * ...

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 * Lists of waterways#Canals, Lists of ...

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 wate ...

* List of proposed canals

Others

Lists of reservoirs and dams The following is a list of reservoir (water), reservoirs and dams, arranged by continent and country. Africa Algeria # Djorf Torba Dam # Keddara Dam # Koudiat Acerdoune Dam # Meraldene Dam # boughrara Dam # Beni Bahdel Dam # Mafrouch ...

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 River, Allegheny and Monongahela River, Monongahela rivers at Point State Park, The Point in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ends at the confluence o ...

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 Un ...

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 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 canals, b ...

List of navigation authorities in the United States A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

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 o ...