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The word "catchment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a designated area of land that drains surface water runoff to a specific body of water, such as a river or pond. For example, you might say, "The municipal catchment drains into the local river."
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catchment
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Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water
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The catchment of indiscretion that is Twitter also exposes just how frequently gender warriors belittle other women.
It took the IPT more than two years to rule the council had no business using anti-terrorist laws to establish whether the Patons lived outside a school's catchment area.
It is no exaggeration to say that victory in this game, however unlikely, could have massive repercussions for a club fighting for its share of public affection in the same catchment area as Manchester United and Manchester City.
It's "annoying", she says, that middle class families try to colonise the school catchment area – it was recently at the centre of an admissions fraud row – but the diverse student population is an advantage.
In Mpasazi, a remote village in the Embangweni catchment, small changes are making the biggest difference.
The government's policy of allowing every school to become an island cut adrift from wider civic responsibilities, with a carefully crafted catchment area, and little relationship with other schools, promotes segregation rather than a broad-minded education.
The district forest officers had not been assisting with PFM and communities had not even heard of district catchment forest manager Makia M Makia, even though he had already been in post three months.
Rainwater is collected from a 600m2 pitched roof catchment area and harvested through a low-tech ceramic water filtration system, which purifies the water for immediate use by the pupils and nearby families.
With at least half the world's fisheries under threat from overfishing, the MSC needs to keep expanding its catchment area of protection - even if it cannot certify perfection.
When they arrive, its three-year-olds, chosen non-selectively by catchment area, are well behind the national average.
In the 1950s the country had 50,000 rivers with catchment areas of 100 square kilometres or more.
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