Think..EPA's attempts at changing "all navigable waterways" in the 1973 Clean Waters Act to "all waterways"
Every drop is now navigable.
A stream? navigable by a message in a bottle (good way to get the word to your uncle in New Orleans from anywhere in the US!).
Droplet on leaf? navigable by millions of protozoa.
“Navigable” is a legal definition, not a common sense one. It would have to be, as many rivers dry up and come back—