Download
[ US /ˈhɛdˌwɔtɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the source of a river
    the headwaters of the Nile

How To Use headwater In A Sentence

  • The Ob, Irtysh and Enisey rivers and their numerous tributaries have their headwaters here. Sayan montane conifer forests
  • Other species, and even genera that could be construed as subgenera of Salmo are localized in single lakes in Europe, an area of spring-fed streams along the Adriatic coast of former Yugoslavia, and a few small headwater streams in south-central Turkey. Trout and Salmon of North America
  • The Jivaro live on the eastern slopes of the Andes where mountain ranges meet the Amazon River headwaters.
  • Seepage from the Ogallala in eastern Colorado creates the headwaters for the North Fork of the Republican River, which flows past the Adamson family farm, and into Nebraska and Kansas. Liquid Gold
  • the headwaters of the Nile
  • We pulled dinner from below the lower falls and spent another day crossing Otter Lake and exploring the boggy headwaters of the Steelhead River.
  • But hundreds of headwater streams that supply them will cease flowing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sewage discharge, bush clearance, farm runoff, sedimentation, landfills, gravel extraction, water abstraction, headwater diversion, commercial fishing operations, and the Tongariro hydroelectricity scheme has all had a direct influence on the destruction of the fisheries in this rohe. NZ On Screen
  • The park waters of Yoho and Kootenay flow to the Pacific Ocean through the Columbia drainage, those of Mount Robson, via the headwaters of the Fraser River. Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Canada
  • Clearcuts and the failure to provide for adequate buffers along the Caribou Mountain headwaters have increased stream flow.
View all