How to Use catchment in a Sentence

catchment

noun

• At first, the city used the stony ridge for woodlots and rain catchments.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• But soil in catchments has been warming and drying across the planet.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2018
• Experts on the scene tell PM that a fan from one of the engines was recovered in a catchment basin, downhill from the crash site.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 10 Sep. 2018
• Even across a small catchment such as Langtang, the rains vary strikingly.
  — Walter Immerzeel, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• There are hundreds of catchments like Langtang across the Himalayas.
  — Walter Immerzeel, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• At the lower left, a rivulet of water trickles from a half-round wooden pipe into the cool darkness of a catchment pool.
  — William E. Wallace, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
• The Langtang catchment is a small river basin that drains several mountain peaks and glaciers.
  — Walter Immerzeel, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
• Students must live in a neighborhood zoned for the school and higher quality schools and districts can drive up the price of homes in their catchment areas.
  — Mike McShane, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• Shorebirds nest on the roof next to solar panels and a rainwater catchment system.
  — Lindsey J. Smith, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
• The Kosi is one of the siltiest rivers in the world, carrying an annual load of some 100 million tons of sediment eroded from its catchment in the Himalayas.
  — Fred Pearce, Science | AAAS, 13 May 2021
• The cabin has eight bunks with thin foam pads, attached water catchment tanks and composting toilets.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• The lake has long been a catchment for industrial pollution.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2022
• The park is blessed with a relative abundance of water and a rain-catchment system, which yields an interior full of fir, spruce, and aspen forests.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2022
• One of the region’s natural snow scoops is at Sugar Bowl, with a curving back wall that acts as a natural catchment during big snow events.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2018
• Homes get their water from the rainfall, using water catchments to pump into households.
  — Nour Malas, WSJ, 8 May 2018
• The bridge will be ADA-compliant and include a rainwater catchment system.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• The slum is on a slight downward slope, creating an unwanted catchment of rainwater.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 23 Feb. 2020
• Most camping toilets have one catchment that combines liquids and solids, creating a mess that stinks up your vehicle.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 16 July 2022
• Rain flows off the church’s roof to the underground catchment, then irrigates a large garden and orchard, which includes tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, figs, and even juju berries.
  — Tara Adhikari, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2021
• Brantley’s team used sodium as a proxy to calculate the amount of silicate weathering happening in river catchments around the world.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
• And rainwater catchment systems can store water from rain gutters.
  — James Reed, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
• Rainwater catchment systems work great and can be a steady source for watering a garden, but be sure to look into the laws dictating water harvesting rights in your state.
  — Scott Yorko, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2020
• The group also offers a 16-hour online course on how to install and maintain a rain catchment system and a rainwater harvesting manual.
  — Annie Midori Atherton, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• That is, given rainfall over a certain catchment region, an estimate of the sort of rock and soil (and its porosity) that the water must flow through, and an idea of the extent of hot rock, scientists can generate a flow field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• Anthony said the hydraulic fluid is contained in tanks at the facility and surrounded by catchment devices to make sure a rupture or leak is not released.
  — Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 5 Jan. 2023
• So Los Angeles is preparing itself by building a rain catchment network to store those deluges underground for times of want.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2019
• While low on tourist appeal, the city has a catchment of 10 million people and more business traffic than the capital, acting as Germany’s third transfer hub after Frankfurt and Munich.
  — Richard Weiss, Bloomberg.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• To prevent flooding the park will have bioswales or stormwater catchment systems to reduce basement flooding and capture water runoff from adjacent streets and alleys.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
• The mall was recently demolished and the land transformed into a park that is both a catchment basin for stormwater runoff and an amenity that has catalyzed development of new mixed-income housing.
  — Richard Florida and Ellen Dunham-Jones, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• After the hazard has passed, do check your home, and especially your catchment system for any impact that may affect your water quality.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024