Even measuring the boundary of a static body of water is no mean feat.
Now we are living in isolation, separated from fellow New Yorkers by a body of water.
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After flying through earth tones and dry land, you are struck by a blazing blue body of water.
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But a Google spokesperson told CNN the body of water was never labeled.
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And Concorde's limited range means that it cannot fly supersonically across the world's largest body of water, the Pacific Ocean.
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Lower Lough Erne however is a more traditional open body of water.
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It's an inky blue body of water thick with floating, ancient ice.
It seemed to be a city on a hill, with unsteady buildings teetering up its sides, a body of water lapping at its base.
Although there are some similarities with the Gulf of Mexico, they argue that the Caspian is a closed body of water and much shallower.
The four men died after the Gleision drift mine flooded on 15 September 2011 after a retaining wall holding back a body of water failed.
This single, contiguous body of water is crucial to human life.
One could simply drive up to and into a body of water and keep on going, thanks to dual outboard propellers and a (mostly) watertight body.
By simply piercing the surface of the water, you set off an energy force within the body of water that extends outward, impacting anything it touches.
Like nuclear power plants, advanced coal power plants can only be sited within about 20 miles of a large body of water to meet cooling needs.
Stick one end in a body of water near your home and it will upload water purity information to the web via a built-in ZigBee module.
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Airsafe.com, a not-for-profit venture that compiles airline-safety statistics, notes only four cases in which a flight crew intentionally landed a commercial jet into a body of water.
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The largest underground body of water in Antarctica is known as Lake Vostok, which is 250km (155 miles) long, 40km (25 miles) wide and 400m (1, 300ft) deep.
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"A portion of the building was also constructed on land which had been a body of water before and was filled with rubbish, " he told the Associated Press news agency.
If teens are swimming in a natural body of water like a lake or river, they should use the rule "feet first, first time" to prevent spinal injuries.
"It is a beautiful body of water, " said Rondi Davies, an Australian-born science teacher living in Harlem who hopes to complete the last stage of her 120-mile swim Monday.
Faster than you could say, "Have your people call my people, " Aquabot was ready to be tossed into the pool, albeit a modest body of water by celebrity standards.
"It's just simply the case that we don't have a label for every body of water, " the spokesperson said, speaking anonymously on the issue in keeping with company policy.
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In related news, the United States Navy has dispatched the USS Enterprise to the Persian Gulf, which would be its third aircraft carrier in that tiny body of water.
When the patient heads to a body of water to try to soothe the fiery pain, the worm deposits more larvae in the water, and the cycle starts over.
This body of water is some 7, 000km west of Toba in the East African Rift Valley, from where our Homo sapiens species emerged in the past 100, 000 years or so.
It all made for a lilting tableau, even in her agitated state, even if she knew that beneath its present blue sheen this particular body of water was a mudhole.
Living close to a body of water has its share of real estate perks water views, waterfront properties, private beaches, and personal boat launches are a few top-of-mind examples.
The ocean is a single, contiguous body of water that is crucial to human life: an unauthorized experiment carried out in one place can have consequences hundreds of kilometres away.
Remaining traces are indistinguishable in a body of water as enormous as the Gulf of Mexico and no different than the trace amounts that naturally seep from the ocean floor.
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