An area of land where all rainwater and melting snow naturally moves to the same body of water.
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Examples for "watershed"
Examples for "watershed"
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This year, especially, could mark a watershed moment in the political arena.
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Deputy Commissioner Wally Haumaha is calling the new strategy a watershed moment.
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Says O'Connor: Now is a watershed moment for Ireland on insurance reform.
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The rout in European financial markets last week was a watershed event.
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This week has been a watershed moment for the discourse on alcohol.
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Flash floods usually arise when rain falls over a small catchment basin.
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Its value as a flood catchment basin is somewhat uncertain, as it is used as a storage feeder for Morris Canal.
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Not a drop of liquid is to leave the catchment basin; it is exactly the reverse of what we desire in Europe.
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A spokesman for Dublin Port said the leaked fuel was contained within a catchment basin beside the tank purpose-built to handle such incidents.
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Samples of feces, wastewater from catchment basins, and soil where wastewater was applied were collected from CONV and RWA feedlot and dairy farms.
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The willows in the Arctic drainage basin shrink to shrubs scarcely knee-high.
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Table showing detailed facts regarding possible reservoir sites on Passaic drainage basin.
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The drainage basin of Passaic River is admirably adapted to the development of the conservation system.
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Its drainage basin, including in this its own area, is estimated to be about five hundred square miles.
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To possess one-half the drainage basin of the valley would have led to constant conflict with the owners of the other half.
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A flood watch was issued for the northern, eastern and southeast river catchment.
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Around 90mm is forecast for the region, which is great news for the local river catchment system.
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What river catchment do you live in?
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The river catchment was given a C-plus mark yesterday with the release of the first five year report card on its health and well-being.
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Farmers living in river catchment areas have urged the Government to deliver a plan to tackle the flooding problem for once and for all.
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The study identified an "adverse impact" at just five sites in the 250km2 river catchment over five years.
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There were improvements across the board, apart from the Gouritz River Catchment.
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The Berg River catchment area is likely to receive over 10mm, feeding the facilities in Franschhoek.
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However, Tukituki River catchment's rules introduced in 2014, were among the strictest in the country, Ms Lambert said.
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Marton was considered to be at low risk, with the focus on the Whangaehu and Turakina river catchments.
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But Elliott said the next step would be for the government to approve wild releases into particular river catchments.
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The government has announced funding to protect and restore one of the country's most at-risk river catchments in Marlborough.
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Further north, the Logan and Albert River catchments were overflowing after the region received isolated falls of 280mm overnight.
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The project links the Riviersonderend and Berg River catchment areas, capturing excess winter run-off that trickles into the dam.
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Dairy farms in the Oreti, Aparima and Clutha river catchments were the most severely impacted, with many areas also without power.
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Salmon stocks have been so damaged by over-fishing at sea that survival of the species is endangered in some river catchments.