Editing River source (section)

==Related usages==
The verb "rise" can be used to express the general region of a river's source, and is often qualified with an adverbial expression of place. For example:
*The River Thames rises in Gloucestershire.
*The White Nile rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa.

The word "source", when applied to [[lake]]s rather than rivers or streams, refers to the lake's [[inflow (hydrology)|inflow]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epa.gov/region09/air/owens/qa.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170601112510/http://www.epa.gov/region09/air/owens/qa.html|archive-date=June 1, 2017|publisher=[[United States Environmental Protection Agency]]|title=Pacific Southwest, Region 9 {{!}} Air Actions, California {{!}} Owens Valley Particulate Matter Plan Q & A|quote=...the Owens River, the source of the lake... }}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|url=http://edocs.tu-berlin.de/diss/2004/casallas_jorge.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625030350/http://edocs.tu-berlin.de/diss/2004/casallas_jorge.pdf|archive-date=June 25, 2008|publisher=[[Technische Universität Berlin]]|title=Limnological investigations in Lake San Pablo|first1=Casallas|last1=Guzmán|first2=Jorge|last2=Enrique|date=January 21, 2005|quote=...source of the lake is the River Itambi...|DOI=10.14279/depositonce-1034}}</ref>