They are pumping freshwater from the river catchment.
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Catchment
/ˈkatʃmənt/
Synonyms for "catchment" (10 found)
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Noun(2 words)
catchment areadrainage basin
Verb(1 words)
collect water
Related words (5)
Adjective(1 words)
french bassin
Noun(4 words)
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3 entriescoastal catchmentriver catchmenturban catchment
Collocations
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1 entriesDerivations
3 entriescatchment areacatchment basincatchment zone
Sample sentences
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The hospital's catchment area is the hospital's city plus the 3 adjacent towns.
Source: tatoeba (8850422)
Do you think that there ought to be some board or some authority for each catchment basin, which must be appointed with adequate powers to prevent the pollution of streams?
Source: wiktionary
[paragraph 515] Now let us come to this point: you are quite clear that serious evil exists in this union of navigation and drainage? […] [paragraph 517] And you are also clear that one obstacle is the taxation of the catchment area, and that it needs some plan to be devised for meeting it, although this plan may have defects?
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