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A woman digs in a dry stream bed in Kenya to find water during a drought.. A streambed or stream bed is the bottom of a stream or river and is confined within a channel, or the banks of the waterway. [1]
The Doña Ana County Flood Commission in the U.S. state of New Mexico defines an arroyo as "a watercourse that conducts an intermittent or ephemeral flow, providing primary drainage for an area of land of 40 acres (160,000 m 2) or larger; or a watercourse which would be expected to flow in excess of one hundred cubic feet per second as the result of a 100 year storm event."
Wadi – River valley, especially a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain; Waterfall – A point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop; Watershed – Land area where water converges to a common outlet; Wave-cut platform – Narrow flat area created by erosion
Dry rivers in Africa refers to streams which bed is either above the water table or which are only intermittently parched. They often serve as the main sources of water during the rainy season, and their floodplains can support a diverse range of wildlife and vegetation.
High Street, Benwick, East Cambridgeshire, built on a roddon [nb 1] [1] Houses built on a roddon [nb 1] [2] at Prickwillow, East Cambridgeshire A roddon, also written as rodham, roddam or rodden, is the dried raised bed of a watercourse such as a river or tidal-creek, especially in The Fens in eastern England.
Water is flowing again in part of Mexico's dry Colorado River Delta, bringing back a running river where months ago there was a sandy riverbed.
Residents in the drought-struck town of Dunedoo, New South Wales, battled minor flooding after thunderstorms swept through the region on February 17.Roads and fields were flooded and a warning was ...
Riverbed may also refer to: Wadi, a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain; Riverbed Technology, an American technology company;