headwaters
Noun
Meaning
headwaters pl (plural only)
The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
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You are all caught in the current of history whose headwaters rise in the dark mountains of the past. You cannot change it; you survive and help others to survive by adapting to it.
A permit for the proposed gold and copper mine at the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska was recently rejected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as “contrary to the public interest.”
BEMIDJI -- Headwaters Music and Arts invites amateur singers to take part in Bemidji Sings!, a vocal competition celebrating the talents of youth and adults who live, work or attend school in Bemidji.
Also in 1887, Verdier's agent, Marcel Treich-Laplène, negotiated five additional agreements that extended French influence from the headwaters of the Niger River Basin through Ivory Coast.
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Because the Columbia was at the same latitude as the headwaters of the Missouri River, there was some speculation that Gray and Vancouver had discovered the long-sought Northwest Passage.