floodwater
ਹੜ੍ਹ ਦਾ ਪਾਣੀ
definition
noun
trying to track the rising floodwaters and coordinate relief efforts
water overflowing as the result of a flood.
example
Every year during the rainy season as the 'floodwater' of the upper Zambezi River valley rises, the Lozi people make a ceremonial move to higher ground.
And Katrina could have churned the water in Lake Pontchartrain such that saltier water on the bottom of the lake got into the 'floodwater' .
That rising 'floodwater' also causing flooding in downtown, several feet deep in some areas.
He'd come to regard the rising 'floodwater' as a metaphor for his own life struggles, and now he looked depressed.
The 'floodwaters' were overflowing the National Highway 31 at many places.
They reduce the impact of ocean waves and absorb 'floodwaters' .
The reason for the treaty in the first place was to force Mexico to give up the Rio Grande's potential, under the principle that the country with the headwaters gets the 'floodwaters' .
A family from Yorkshire was reunited yesterday, 24 hours after they were separated by 'floodwaters' in the Cornish seaside disaster.
Thousands more are still stranded, perching above the waters of the Limpopo in Gaza province and above the 'floodwaters' of the Save river valley in Inhambane province.
And it's interesting talking with them, you get the sense they've clearly been on this water and in these 'floodwaters' for several days.
Although 'floodwaters' receded slightly yesterday, authorities were watching rising water levels farther downstream on the Danube, Isar and Inn rivers.
You'll be glad to know that the story has a happy ending, with only several thousand Londoners drowning horribly in the rising 'floodwaters' as a surge tide invades the capital.
Uring had drawn a map of the lower Belize River, indicating the site, which he said was forty-two miles upriver on high banks above the 'floodwaters' .
Municipal crews, homeowners and farmers across the Southeast spent an exhausting weekend desperately trying to cope with rapidly rising 'floodwaters' .
Much of New Orleans is below sea level, so 'floodwaters' will have to be pumped out.
Whether a camel is stuck in a gluggy saltpan, a vehicle is bogged on a giant sandhill, a party is running out of fuel or water, or guests are marooned on the wrong side of rising 'floodwaters' , Rex can always find a solution.
Floodplain vegetation is often destroyed by the force of 'floodwaters' or by materials transported by floods.
His charming wife Rita, who keeps the Po Valley 'floodwaters' of her husband's conversation from overflowing, plumped for the foie gras and balsamic vinegar salad.
They had relocated to Biloxi, Mississippi, in hopes of avoiding the rising 'floodwaters' .
He was stuck in a drainpipe, chest-deep in the rising 'floodwaters' of Hurricane Floyd.
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