headwater
hed waw ter
- n the source of a river
the headwaters of the Nile
- When the whole system is finished, 107 headwater dams and reservoirs will regulate the rivers; farmers in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas will have .
- His work is viewed at home as the headwater of the great streams in Russian literature.
- On the question of building headwater reservoirs, Army Engineers pointed out that it would take over $1,000,000,000 to do any sort of job to compare with their proposed $300,000 .