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"
1This year, especially, could mark a watershed moment in the political arena.
2Deputy Commissioner Wally Haumaha is calling the new strategy a watershed moment.
3Says O'Connor: Now is a watershed moment for Ireland on insurance reform.
4The rout in European financial markets last week was a watershed event.
5This week has been a watershed moment for the discourse on alcohol.
1Flash floods usually arise when rain falls over a small catchment basin.
2Its value as a flood catchment basin is somewhat uncertain, as it is used as a storage feeder for Morris Canal.
3Not a drop of liquid is to leave the catchment basin; it is exactly the reverse of what we desire in Europe.
4A spokesman for Dublin Port said the leaked fuel was contained within a catchment basin beside the tank purpose-built to handle such incidents.
5Samples of feces, wastewater from catchment basins, and soil where wastewater was applied were collected from CONV and RWA feedlot and dairy farms.
1The willows in the Arctic drainage basin shrink to shrubs scarcely knee-high.
2Table showing detailed facts regarding possible reservoir sites on Passaic drainage basin.
3The drainage basin of Passaic River is admirably adapted to the development of the conservation system.
4Its drainage basin, including in this its own area, is estimated to be about five hundred square miles.
5To possess one-half the drainage basin of the valley would have led to constant conflict with the owners of the other half.
1A flood watch was issued for the northern, eastern and southeast river catchment.
2Around 90mm is forecast for the region, which is great news for the local river catchment system.
3What river catchment do you live in?
4The 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.
5Farmers living in river catchment areas have urged the Government to deliver a plan to tackle the flooding problem for once and for all.
6The study identified an "adverse impact" at just five sites in the 250km2 river catchment over five years.
7There were improvements across the board, apart from the Gouritz River Catchment.
8The Berg River catchment area is likely to receive over 10mm, feeding the facilities in Franschhoek.
9However, Tukituki River catchment's rules introduced in 2014, were among the strictest in the country, Ms Lambert said.
10Marton was considered to be at low risk, with the focus on the Whangaehu and Turakina river catchments.
11But Elliott said the next step would be for the government to approve wild releases into particular river catchments.
12The government has announced funding to protect and restore one of the country's most at-risk river catchments in Marlborough.
13Further north, the Logan and Albert River catchments were overflowing after the region received isolated falls of 280mm overnight.
14The project links the Riviersonderend and Berg River catchment areas, capturing excess winter run-off that trickles into the dam.
15Dairy farms in the Oreti, Aparima and Clutha river catchments were the most severely impacted, with many areas also without power.
16Salmon stocks have been so damaged by over-fishing at sea that survival of the species is endangered in some river catchments.