The phrase "artificial basin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a man-made water body or depression created for various purposes, such as irrigation, flood control, or recreation.
Example: "The engineers designed an artificial basin to collect rainwater and prevent flooding in the surrounding areas."
Alternatives: "man-made reservoir" or "synthetic pond".
In 1828 proposals were made for the conversion of Wallasey Pool into an artificial basin.
An artificial basin at La Joliette, built on the bay just outside of the Old Port, began operation in the mid-1840s, and five additional basins were subsequently built along a five-mile stretch of the bay.
Military offensives were named after that sacred Shia site; the last big assault, Karbala-5, fought around Fish Lake, a huge artificial basin on Iraqi defence lines, was also the most wretchedly wasteful.
The need to erect an arsenal in the city of Cartagena during the 18th century required the construction of an artificial basin in the hidden Mandarache Sea.
Văcărești was originally a neighbourhood of Bucharest, built under communist rule on land reclaimed from swamps to make room for several grand architectural projects, including new buildings for the Ministry of Justice and Supreme Court, and an artificial basin, Lake Văcărești – part of an ambitious hydrological infrastructure plan to connect Bucharest to the river Danube.
Hydroelectric gravitational storage of energy at sea level can also be procured [14, 20, 21] by employing a weighted piston in a deep water filled shaft (such as a mine shaft), are a larger diameter well or in a much larger area artificial basin, as suggested in Figs. 7a, 7b and 7c.
Last week, voters in Missouri approved a measure legalizing slot machines in casinos floating in artificial basins.
During the Aegean civilization, as in later Hellenic Greece, springs were frequently considered sacred and shrines were built around them, the water often emerging into artificial basins.
Attributing equal weight to the environmental, social and economical criteria, the best solution corresponds to the sole creation of artificial basins and the actual situation is placed at position 8 (out of 13).
Unlike Dongting Lake in Hunan province, Lake Poyang has no artificial retention basin to increase its capacity to receive the Yangtze's floodwaters.
Some 25 miles farther on, the river gradient decreases suddenly to some 0.04 percent; from there, after turning eastward, the Vistula enters Lake Goczałkowice, an artificial storage basin built in 1955.
