Synonyms of waterways

waterways

noun

plural of waterway

as in canals

an open man-made passageway for water

the Erie Canal was superseded by a much larger waterway, the New York State Barge Canal

Synonyms & Similar Words

• canals
• aqueducts
• watercourses
• rivers
• raceways
• conduits
• flumes
• channels
• racecourses
• courses
• sluices
• spillways
• floodways
• sluiceways
• gutters
• streams
• torrents
• rivulets
• millraces
• millstreams
• troughs
• tideways
• swashes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of waterways

Multiple efforts to allow safe shipping on one of the world's most crucial waterways have failed. — Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

Subsequent rainfall turned burn areas into mudslides and filled waterways with runoff. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

The two itineraries are slightly different, though both take passengers through the iconic waterways of the Panama Canal about halfway through the cruise. — Megan Dubois, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2026

And in Madagascar, textile factories and industrial parks have been accused of skirting water-treatment requirements and releasing untreated or partially treated wastewater into waterways. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026

The waterways of the planet keep running into the seas and oceans. — Eileen Hunt, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026

Multiple efforts to allow safe shipping on one of the world’s most crucial waterways have failed. — Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2026

Yet, even presuming that the government could beat back Native powers, intelligently dividing that unseen area into plots would require understanding its geography, soil, and waterways. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

The Houthis have already seized a long stretch of the Yemeni coastline adjacent to the Red Sea – one of the world’s most important waterways – and control the Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint at its southern end. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026