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- noun Any significant accumulation of
water , usually covering the Earth or another planet, such as a river, lake or a bay.
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Examples
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What I DO know is that recent Ontario, Canada law states that it is now ILLEGAL to dump unused baitfish in the water, even if they were caught in the same waterbody that they are intended for release.
Woman Fries And Eats Pet Goldfish After Fight With Ex-Husband 2009
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After the water is drawn through the power plant, it is discharged at an elevated temperature back into the waterbody, causing even more damage.
Mary Anne Hitt: How to Stop Giant Fish Blenders Mary Anne Hitt 2011
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After the water is drawn through the power plant, it is discharged at an elevated temperature back into the waterbody, causing even more damage.
Mary Anne Hitt: How to Stop Giant Fish Blenders Mary Anne Hitt 2011
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What I DO know is that recent Ontario, Canada law states that it is now ILLEGAL to dump unused baitfish in the water, even if they were caught in the same waterbody that they are intended for release.
Woman Fries And Eats Pet Goldfish After Fight With Ex-Husband 2009
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Power plants 'destruction of aquatic creatures' eggs and larvae saps biological energy from the waterbody and alters the natural functioning of the food chain.
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Some factories discharge their effluents directly into a waterbody.
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(Source: DC WASA) When it rains excessively, a combined sewer system may not be able handle the volume of water, and some of the combined runoff and raw sewage will overflow from the system, discharging directly into the nearest waterbody without being treated.
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If necessary, a second, more stringent set of controls can be placed on a point source to protect a specific waterbody.
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All South Slough salt marshes may experience less tidal influence than salt marshes in the main Coos estuary waterbody, but the biological differences between the two areas remain to be studied.
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon 2008
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Once, for a school project, I was tasked to delineate the border of a large waterbody in a wetland using an ancient GPS device, getting as close as possible to the water's “edge,” whether accessible or not, and shouting at frequent intervals the coordinates to my partner.
ike™, or: The Amazing Geospatial Intelligence Mobile Mapping and Photographic Tool 2006
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