- published: 07 Aug 2013
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A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill (occasionally ghyll), kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or runnel.
Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle, instruments in groundwater recharge, and corridors for fish and wildlife migration. The biological habitat in the immediate vicinity of a stream is called a riparian zone. Given the status of the ongoing Holocene extinction, streams play an important corridor role in connecting fragmented habitats and thus in conserving biodiversity. The study of streams and waterways in general is known as surface hydrology and is a core element of environmental geography.
In the United Kingdom, there are several regional names for a stream:
In North America:
Streams typically derive most of their water from precipitation in the form of rain and snow. Most of this water re-enters the atmosphere by evaporation from soil and water bodies, or by the evapotranspiration of plants. Some of the water proceeds to sink into the earth by infiltration and becomes groundwater, much of which eventually enters streams. Some precipitated water is temporarily locked up in snow fields and glaciers, to be released later by evaporation or melting. The rest of the water flows off the land as runoff, the proportion of which varies according to many factors, such as wind, humidity, vegetation, rock types, and relief. This runoff starts as a thin film called sheet wash, combined with a network of tiny rills, together constituting sheet runoff; when this water is concentrated in a channel, a stream has its birth.
Oooh, now that I am free,
Swimming with the many fishes of the stream.
Yeah, and I am welcome here,
We all just connected swimmingly.
Streams of life digress
Like water running through my veins.
I'm learning how to breathe,
Living underwater,
I am deeper than the eye can see.
Yeah, it was meant to be,
Now I'm flowing with the current of the stream.
Streams of life digress
Like water running through my veins.
Running through my veins
Running through my veins.
I start my life again,
Just as well this ain't the first stream I have swam.
Cold water rushing to my brain
Is thicker than the blood that's flowing through my veins
Streams of life digress
Like water running through my veins.
Streams of blood like liquid love
Is rushing to my brain.
[VEINS]
It suddenly hits me in the heat of the sun,
A product of fear, far from human.
It suddenly hits me and crushes my world
Like a tidal wave trapped in my shell.
It suddenly hits me, what have I become?
Searching for answers in my aquarium.
It suddenly bites me and poisons my veins,
Lost and unable to find my way.
[DIGRESSION]
My chosen path, the direction that I take
Is the consequence of your greatest mistake.
When that day arrives, it's decision time.
Which way will I turn?
Will I ever really learn?
If I'm shown the way, I will never be alone.
The choice is mine in deciding where I'll go.
All our souls digressed, we started as one.
All our journeys will end at the same destination.
Streams of life digress
Like water running through my veins.
Streams of blood like liquid love