catchment area

Example Sentences

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It will also serve as a larger catchment area, which could extend all the way to the neighbouring Pune city, a major IT and education hub.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

However, pupils starting school this week in North Yorkshire will only receive free travel to their nearest school instead of any which is within their catchment area.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025

About 24 million chickens, a quarter of the UK's poultry production, are raised in the river's catchment area.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025

Clinton Devon Estates manage several farms in the Devon catchment area where the trial wild beaver project has been running.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

A hundred thousand people lived in the dam catchment area, but up to a million peasant farmers, coming from far away, relied on the clinic.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French