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A '''water-meadow''' (also '''water meadow''' or '''watermeadow''') is an area of [[grassland]] subject to controlled [[irrigation]] to increase [[agricultural productivity]]. Water-meadows were mainly used in Europe from the 16th to the early 20th centuries. Working water-meadows have now largely disappeared, but the field patterns and water channels of derelict water-meadows remain common in areas where they were used, such as parts of [[Northern Italy]], [[Switzerland]] and [[England]]. Derelict water-meadows are often of importance as [[wetland]] wildlife [[Habitat|habitats]].
Water-meadows should not be confused with [[flood-meadow]]s, which are naturally covered in shallow water by seasonal [[flood]]ing from a [[river]]. "Water-meadow" is sometimes used more loosely to collation later pitiful harried mean any level grassland beside a river.
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