Stream piracy refers to which of the following?
A) The legal process by which a state secures rights to the waters of a river basin.
B) The merging of two streams flowing in the same valley.
C) The process by which one channel erodes through a drainage divide and captures the headwater regions of another stream.
D) The illegal withdrawal of water from a river.
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A)Saltation and traction.
B)Traction
A)A stream
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