How to Use catchment area in a Sentence

catchment area

noun
  • But in the way stand Auroville’s youth center, a water catchment area and hundreds of trees.
    New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • To enroll in Vaux, students must live in the neighborhood catchment area.
    Kia Gregory, The Root, 2 May 2018
  • Then, on January 19, thunderstorms dumped large amounts of rain in the Mannus Creek catchment area.
    Adam Welz, Wired, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Cities need to protect flood defences and catchment areas, such as the wetlands around Kolkata and the lakes in and around Pokhara in Nepal, whose value is becoming clear.
    The Economist, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The fridge’s mechanical parts replenish their lubricant by recycling the oil that has pooled in the catchment area.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
  • The school, which opened in 2001, had a catchment area shaped like a reverse C, drawing from neighborhoods on the far sides of town — which is how Ms. Bowie ended up commuting to a wealthier area for school.
    New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • All this makes flooding more severe, as deforestation in the catchment area of a river reduces the land’s ability to retain water.
    Gayathri D Naik, Quartz India, 13 Sep. 2019
  • According to the government, water catchment areas now cover two-thirds of Singapore’s surface area, up from half in 2011.
    Kamakshi Ayyar, Time, 6 June 2018
  • However, when Les Halles, Paris's former food market opened in the same catchment area, the store struggled to retained its customers, eventually fell into disrepair, and was forced to close in 2005 for safety reasons.
    Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • There are 16 residential mental health beds available to people in the United Services catchment area in northeastern Connecticut.
    Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 7 Mar. 2018
  • That effort has been embodied by a widening of the Asian-themed festival’s geographical catchment area and a simultaneous completion of the shift to thematic presentation of the selection.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 Nov. 2022
  • In an effort to understand the varied needs within a multicultural community, Promise Neighborhood programs are required to conduct door-to-door surveys of families in their catchment area.
    Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The Atewa landscape provides rich forest cover for climate regulation, a show piece to illustrate climate adaptation to avoid drought, reduce poverty and enhance sustainable livelihoods and improve human well being in its catchment area.
    Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Quartz Africa, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Third, stratify deidentified patient outcome data available regarding the clinical services the medical center provides not just by race and ethnicity but by ZIP code within the institution’s catchment area.
    Wari Allison, STAT, 24 Apr. 2021

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