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thumb|Components of an artificial levee: thumb|The side of a levee in Sacramento, California|Sacramento, [[California]]

Warwerort is a municipality in the Amt ("collective municipality") Büsum-Wesselburen in the district Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

dam in Kazakhstan

1865 novel by American author Mary Mapes Dodge

300px|thumb|right|A coupure where the A2 motorway (Netherlands)|A2 motorway crosses the Diefdijk ([[Hollandic Water Line) in the Netherlands.]] thumb|right|A coupure with a shed for storing the materials used to close the coupure in Het Hogeland

situation where a levee fails or is intentionally breached, causing the previously contained water to flood

mostly vertical artificial barrier to temporarily contain the waters of a waterway which may flood