a generic geographic term used to describe a coastal plain with rivers that feed a bay or low coastal land that is
inundated by water at flood tide. There are many “tidewaters” across the nation and the globe. In the
United States, tidewaters include such locations as Myrtle Beach SC, New Orleans LA, portions of Maryland facing the Chesapeake Bay, Outer Banks NC, Tidewater OR and coasts on the Gulf of Mexico.
On a global
perspective, for instance, the regions of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Maldives struck by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami are all tidewaters.