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I need the most common word (or, better, a term) you (or, better ;-), a specialist in irrigation) would use for the following:
We have them in the Volga floodlands (the area further the low bank of the Volga). They look like a small lake or a very small river. During the spring flooding period the ones that already existed become even larger and new ones appear. Some of them are linked together and to the river. When I worked as a translator for a Turkish film director who was going to shoot a documentary about this area (floodlands), I translated it for him as a "channel". Being also a non-native English speaker, he understood it very well (moreover, he saw these "channels" for himself when we travelled there which made it easier).
So is there a better word than a channel in English to describe this thing? I could go on using the word "channel", but there are also the words in the title that I have found and, perhaps, some other words that I don't know.
Here are some pictures I found which look more or less like them:
We have them in the Volga floodlands (the area further the low bank of the Volga). They look like a small lake or a very small river. During the spring flooding period the ones that already existed become even larger and new ones appear. Some of them are linked together and to the river. When I worked as a translator for a Turkish film director who was going to shoot a documentary about this area (floodlands), I translated it for him as a "channel". Being also a non-native English speaker, he understood it very well (moreover, he saw these "channels" for himself when we travelled there which made it easier).
So is there a better word than a channel in English to describe this thing? I could go on using the word "channel", but there are also the words in the title that I have found and, perhaps, some other words that I don't know.
Here are some pictures I found which look more or less like them: