The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet.
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1 Declared and secret energy agreements with Russia, Caspian basin countries, and others.
2 The basin in which the Crisis lay was entirely fringed with forest.
3 The rain is heaviest in the Takazze basin in July and August.
4 The state sits atop the Marcellus Shale, a large natural gas basin .
5 At one time this State had aspirations to drain the Shannon basin .
1 This year, especially, could mark a watershed moment in the political arena.
2 Deputy Commissioner Wally Haumaha is calling the new strategy a watershed moment.
3 Says O'Connor: Now is a watershed moment for Ireland on insurance reform.
4 The rout in European financial markets last week was a watershed event.
5 This week has been a watershed moment for the discourse on alcohol.
1 Flash floods usually arise when rain falls over a small catchment basin .
2 Its value as a flood catchment basin is somewhat uncertain, as it is used as a storage feeder for Morris Canal.
3 Not a drop of liquid is to leave the catchment basin ; it is exactly the reverse of what we desire in Europe.
4 A spokesman for Dublin Port said the leaked fuel was contained within a catchment basin beside the tank purpose-built to handle such incidents.
5 Samples of feces, wastewater from catchment basins , and soil where wastewater was applied were collected from CONV and RWA feedlot and dairy farms.
1 The Pompton River has a drainage area above Mountain View of 420 square miles.
2 The drainage area above this point is 114 square miles.
3 Mr Deery fell about 800 feet into a drainage area near the town of Wanaka.
4 With too little drainage area the earth in a pot gets clogged and very often sour.
5 Piecemeal operations within each lesser drainage area can be self-defeating or, at the very least, needlessly expensive.
1 But efforts to build hydroelectric dams in the Tapajós river basin continue.
2 Severe flooding hit the Yangtze river basin in China this week.
3 The Harirud river basin is shared by Afghanistan, Iran and Turkmenistan.
4 The river basin showed luxuriant grassy slopes and immense sugar plantations.
5 Nestled into the side of a mountain, it overlooks the Liffey river basin .
1 The willows in the Arctic drainage basin shrink to shrubs scarcely knee-high.
2 Table showing detailed facts regarding possible reservoir sites on Passaic drainage basin .
3 The drainage basin of Passaic River is admirably adapted to the development of the conservation system.
4 Its drainage basin , including in this its own area, is estimated to be about five hundred square miles.
5 To possess one-half the drainage basin of the valley would have led to constant conflict with the owners of the other half.
1 There's been deliberate management of that catchment area and its high-value homes.
2 Local Authorities say their water catchment area was excluded from the 1080 bombardment.
3 The view changes dramatically, though, if heavy rain falls in the catchment area .
4 The study was conducted in 4 riparian communities within the dam catchment area .
5 Then each child lives in the catchment area of a number of schools.
6 We went for a little trip over the dam's catchment area .
7 The school in question takes approximately 120 pupils a year from its catchment area .
8 Assuming a catchment area of some 100 miles, the answer is a great deal.
9 Let us assume each school has a defined catchment area .
10 MANY householders will be poorer in two weeks' time, particularly in the Dublin catchment area .
11 Experts will concentrate on a very small catchment area .
12 Trucks navigate crowded roads as resorts without their own catchment area bring in water from reservoirs.
13 More than 2000 hectares of rain catchment area has been cleared for development, the spokesman said.
14 Cost did not influence adherence except within a catchment area of facilities that charged for services.
15 The Berg River catchment area is likely to receive over 10mm, feeding the facilities in Franschhoek.
16 Sir, - In January and February there was extensive slurry spreading in the Sheelin catchment area .
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