A river, creek, stream, watercourse and a natural channel where water regularly flows, whether or not the flow is continuous (as defined in the Water Act 1989).

A process where a water corporation under section 51 and 67 of the Water Act 1989 decides whether the land on which someone proposes to construct or alter a dam is on a waterway, and assesses the catchment yield of the land.

Refers here to a machine or construction designed to extract water, usually a pump, or a bore, or a dam.

A licence that authorises the construction, alteration, operation, removal or decommissioning of any works on a waterway, or a bore, or a dam belonging to a prescribed class of dams.