| Outside of farmyards, bales should neither be stored or opened within 20 metres of watercourses or lakes nor within 50 metres of wells. |
| For this reason the broadest possible geographical scope for the law of international watercourses is to be preferred. |
| In dealing with shared or transboundary watercourses a second problem of geographical definition arises. |
| Traditionally, courts in Ontario have distinguished between natural watercourses and the flow of surface waters. |
| The Environment Agency is hoping to be able to issue flood alerts for all major watercourses in the future. |
| Its developers worked in unusual sympathy, preserving the watercourses, mature trees and shoreline that were, and remain, the site's patrimony. |
