They are pumping freshwater from the river catchment.
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Catchment
//ˈkatʃmənt//
Synonyms for "catchment" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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21 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- водосбор noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
- дренаж noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
- каптаж noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Finnish
2 entries- sadealue noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
- valuma-alue noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Galician
1 entries- bacía noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
German
3 entries- Einzugsgebiet noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
- Niederschlagsgebiet noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
- Wassereinzugsgebiet noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Greek
1 entries- λεκάνη noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Italian
2 entries- bacino noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
- invaso noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Māori
1 entries- riu hopuwai noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Norwegian
1 entries- nedslagsdistrikt noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nedbørsfelt noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Polish
2 entries- zlewisko noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
- zlewnia noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Romanian
1 entries- domeniu de precipitații noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Russian
2 entries- водосбо́р noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
- водосбо́рный бассе́йн noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
Turkish
1 entries- havza noun (any structure or land feature which catches and holds water)
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?
Source: wiktionary
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