Talk:List of waterways

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Great Belt is listet as a International waterway. Why? It goes between to danish Island. When it comes to Dardanelles, it is the same - Turkey on both sides.

This relates to international rights of navigation - which is critical in both of these cases though in other circumstances they might be considered as within territorial limits Chris55 09:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Consistency

I think this page needs a little rationalising. Under Ireland we have Rivers and Canals, under Great Britain we have List of Rivers and List of Canals, under United Kingdom we have Waterways and Canals, under Italy, Norway and Sweden we have Category:Canals, and under all other countries a simple list.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

ric 18:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree with this. The word "waterway" implicitly means "navigable" and lists of rivers can include many that are not navigable. It is for this reason the word is used by many national and international organisations. It would also be sensible to relegate the lists of waterways within the larger countries to separate articles. Chris55 09:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)