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• n  natural or artificial channel through which water flows
• n  a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
• n  a conduit through which water flows

• The 700-year-old watercourse speeds alongside a walkway before dipping underground to re-emerge over a huge cut stone with small man-made channels that project two cascading spouts .
• An uncommonly well-told account of the author's sentimental journey by canoe down the Brazos River of western Texas, a watercourse that was to be destroyed by a power dam project.
• Then come the draglines, their heads dipping methodically to gouge the new, deeper watercourse.

• stream
• waterway

News & Articles

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• Pond issues hound Wallingford farmer
  Jeff Andrews stands in front of an irrigation pond he built on his land at 210 Northford Road in Wallingford, Tuesday, July 23, 2013. The pond is located in protected wetlands, and the town's Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission has found the pond to be in violation.
  July 24, 2013 - The Record-Journal

Quotes

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• Festus Mogae in IRINnews.org
  Mogae noted that the commission could, by "thinking as one, determine the best place to grow food, generate power and create other benefits in the Zambezi watercourse, which can then be distributed throughout the basin and beyond, through negotiated...
• Weatherall in The Border Watch
  Independent scientists have advised that if no action is taken, further degradation of the watercourse is likely to occur,Mr Weatherill said. "The most significant risk to the watercourse is a lack of appropriate flows. Over 150 years this...