catchment

Historical Examples of catchment

• Of the whole rainfall on the catchment basin, a part only finds its way to the stream.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 1

  Various

• The catchment basin is surrounded by a ridge or watershed line, continuous except at the point where the river finds an outlet.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 1

  Various

• 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 Douie

• It therefore belongs to the catchment basin of the Sutlej and not to the Indus, and the Tseti-la is a pass of secondary order.

  Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2)

  Sven Hedin

• He was off to see to another of his father's interests—that "catchment area" far away up in the mountains.

  Mushroom Town

  Oliver Onions