Catchment area Sentence Examples

The catchment area from which the Caspian is fed extends to a very much greater distance on the west and north than it does on the south and east.

The "basin" of the Volga is not limited to its actual catchment area.

There is evidence also that glacial moraine formations from time to time may have largely affected the catchment area of these tributary streams. It would be as rash to assert that from Lake Victoria no waters could ever have issued with an eastward flow as it would be to state that 'from Chakmaktin none ever flow westwards.

Two announcements in 1935 were to have far-reaching consequences for the former GER's suburban catchment area.

Longer trains and platforms are needed, especially for services in the south-eastern and south-western parts of the capital's catchment area.

Essentially a catchment area for winter floodwaters, it is a very important site for birds.

The vision of CAMS is ' a shared strategy for sustainable management of water resources within a catchment area ' .

Chelmsford is a new mart with modern buildings but has closed because of the lack of a viable stock catchment area.

The whole of the land which directs drainage towards one river is known as its basin, catchment area or drainage area - sometimes, by an incorrect expression, as its valley or even its watershed.