catchment
Origin of catchment
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How to use catchment in a sentence
Residents also took matters into their own hands, collecting water from the natural springs and installing rain catchment systems if they had the means.
During the growing season in spring and summer, there is almost no rain, so he draws from a water catchment pond, where he stores it from the wet through dry season.
These people simply squat down wherever they can find a natural catchment for water.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) | A. G. HalesThe men nearest would arrange catchment areas of plates and flower bowls.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsHe was off to see to another of his father's interests—that "catchment area" far away up in the mountains.
Mushroom Town | Oliver Onions
The noblest and most-varied scenery in the north-west Himalaya is in the catchment area of the Jhelam.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir | Sir James McCrone DouieThe Sutle; has a course of 900 miles, and a large catchment area in the hills.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir | Sir James McCrone Douie
British Dictionary definitions for catchment
/ (ˈkætʃmənt) /
the act of catching or collecting water
a structure in which water is collected
the water so collected
British the intake of a school from one catchment area
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