The word 'basins' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a large, shallow container that is used for holding liquids, food, or other items. For example: "The kitchen sink has two large basins for washing dishes."
Each block had eight vertical soil stacks to take waste from toilets, basins and baths, but too little water was passing through to flush it all away.
There was plenty of time for Alice and I to play with our double basins, and massive telly, and free Coca-Colas, as it rained, heavily and solidly, for two thirds of our short stay.
Waters said the Queensland government using these kind of descriptions for helping to open up one of the world's largest coal basins beggared belief.
Basins brim with live fish and sea turtles that clients can kill at home or have slaughtered on the spot.
Its main solution is to build more large dams (390 are under construction), and river diversions, including a long-mooted extravaganza of 30 linkages which would unite most of India's river basins.
So it is all the more alarming that one of its great river basins, the Tigris-Euphrates which flows Tigris-Euphrates whichflowsle crescenthroughgave birtheto agriculture itself—is getting drier.
It advocates giving a role in the allocation of water to organisations that span river basins, which normally cross state lines.
But since there are ten such basins in the country it may be that 40tcf is indeed recoverable, roughly equivalent to Britain's share of the original North Sea gas reserves.George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, this week revisited the idea of offering tax breaks to attract shale-gas firms.
The federal government is pushing the provinces to agree to a national ban on the bulk removal of water from all drainage basins.
In the river basins that are the world's rice bowls, nothing else will grow with the same productivity.
Sometimes standing water will evaporate, leaving the soil salty as well as saturated.Tushaar Shah, in "Taming the Anarchy", his book on water in South Asia, says the groundwater irrigation boom in India is "silently reconfiguring" entire river basins.
