Kōrero: Water resources

Urban stream (4 o 4)

Urban stream

In urban areas streams are often channelled between concrete walls. This stream, the Water of Leith in Dunedin, flows over a boulder bed in its headwaters and then is channelled over concrete weirs through the University of Otago campus and into Otago Harbour.

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Photograph by Carl Walrond

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Mike Scarsbrook and Charles Pearson, 'Water resources - Rivers', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18197/urban-stream (accessed 27 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Mike Scarsbrook and Charles Pearson, i tāngia i te 24 Nov 2008