Sentence examples for catchments from inspiring English sources

Water stored on land – either catchments of through flooding – also has an impact.

A national tax on power generation, established in 2010, requires hydropower companies to pay farmers to protect forests within water catchments.

Charity: water counts the number of wells dug and rainwater catchments built.

Since the Tibetan plateau contains a lot of "closed" catchments, from which meltwater cannot easily escape, large amounts of melting could happen without GRACE detecting them.Indeed, a survey by Dr Yao and his colleagues shows the area of the glacial lakes on the plateau has increased by about 26% since the 1970s.

After three years of drought, it could be environmental suicide.Mostly semi-arid, arid or desert, the country depends for its water on scattered catchments in highland areas.

Rainwater is channelled into sand catchments, which serve both to filter it and to protect it from evaporation.

Most of that milk for export is converted to powder and then shipped to China, now New Zealand's second-largest market (after Australia).Dairy farming is also polluting freshwater supplies, as phosphates and nitrates seep into the groundwater catchments.

High-consuming cities downstream inevitably exploited the upstream catchments, especially for timber.

The Indus and its tributaries receive all their waters in the hilly upper parts of their catchments.

Their catchments cover a total area in excess of 3 million square miles (8 million square km) in Siberia north of the Stanovoy Range, and their combined discharge into the Arctic averages 1,750,000 cubic feet (50,000 cubic metres) per second.

Rain catchments are usually the only source of fresh water on atolls.