"gathering water" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe the action of collecting or accumulating water. Example: The village relied on the nearby river for gathering water to meet their daily needs.
Heck, my umbrella was gathering water at one point".
As I ate, I kept one eye on the tent gathering water through the conservatory window.
For two weeks, Florencio Ávalos, the foreman, had driven up and down the mine, gathering water, looking for passageways out, trying to send messages to the top.
A tarpaulin, gathering water, has been hastily laid over the pavement next to it and a crowd has gathered, including a man who offers to trade gruesome photos.
As well as gathering water, I can visit the camp itself, where I'm given an isometric overview of huts, fields and tents and tasked with assisting the residents in growing crops and maintaining the buildings.
A tarpaulin, gathering water, has been hastily laid to cover the pavement next to it and a crowd is gathered nearby, including a man offering to trade gruesome photos taken on his phone.
The protests began in the tiny tributaries of national consciousness, and finally the gathering waters came together to form a turbulent river.
Henk Ovink, a Dutch government expert on climate-resilient infrastructure and on sustainable design, told the gathering that water crises are the world's single greatest risk factor and that 90percentt of natural disasters are water-related.
The scientists wore orange slickers while gathering swamp water samples, as they did that day near the prison, to reduce their chances of being accidentally shot by hunters.
I watched the television news and saw Libyans gathering around water tankers in Tripoli to fill their jerry cans, and another scene where a rebel checkpoint searched a car, its trunk filled with empty plastic water bottles and containers.
But Marie seemed to be above it all, bustling back and forward, gathering bottled water, dried biscuits, tins of fruit and packs of Marlboro cigarettes and always some good whiskey.
