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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a river basin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.
Example: "The Amazon River basin is one of the largest and most biodiverse regions in the world."
Alternatives: "a river catchment" or "a river watershed."
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So is a link to a river basin 80km (50 miles) from the capital.
And even more than a river, as a watershed, a river basin.
"There is often no incentive for companies and players high up in a river basin not to pollute," says Paul Reig, an associate for the World Resources Institute.
Sixty per cent of the groundwater in a river basin supporting more than 750 million people in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh is not drinkable or usable for irrigation, researchers have said.
In December, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Scottish government published a river basin management plan, setting out a long-term program for achieving and maintaining good water quality.
Ostensibly, the war among the three states is about a river basin that supplies the taps of 3.5 million people in metropolitan Atlanta before it flows down the Alabama-Georgia state line and into the Florida Panhandle.
The application is to a river basin in northern Afghanistan.
When ground water saturates a river basin, the risk for flooding goes up.
Morphometric and hypsometric assessment of a river basin has of late been used for applied purposes.
Searcy (1959) provided a comparison of the daily, monthly and annual FDCs for a river basin.
Stream ordering is a widely applied method for stream classification in a river basin.
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