Examples of 'drainage basin' in a sentence

Meaning of "drainage basin"

drainage basin: A drainage basin, also known as a watershed or catchment area, refers to an area of land where all the water from rainfall or snowfall drains into a particular river, lake, or other water bodies. It is defined by the topography and geology of the land and plays a crucial role in the hydrological cycle and water resource management
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  • A topographic region in which all water drains to a common outlet; a watershed.

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Its drainage basin contains many swamps.
Specific recommendations for the drainage basin.
Size of the drainage basin area.
The hydrological cycle within a drainage basin.
A drainage basin may also be referred to as a watershed or catchment.
Its length is and its drainage basin is.
Largest drainage basin in the world.
This ravine acts as a natural drainage basin.
It has a drainage basin of about.
That is why it is also called a drainage basin.
Our main drainage basin.
Watersheds are considered part of a drainage basin.
It is long and its drainage basin has an area of.
The drainage basin of the river is also fairly large.
The area of its drainage basin is.

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The drainage basin surrounding the lake has been severely degraded.
The river is long and has a drainage basin of.
The drainage basin is.
This list is arranged by drainage basin.
The slope of the drainage basin is typically zero to two percent.
Remove the food particles from the drainage basin.
Amazon drainage basin.
The total area is approximately and its drainage basin is over.
Thames drainage basin.
The total length ranges between and with a drainage basin of.
Endorheic drainage basin.
The chart is arranged by tributary and area of the drainage basin.
Within one drainage basin.
It predicted no significant adverse effects to the hydrology of the drainage basin.
Origin of the drainage basin.
Management on a drainage basin level is an appropriate tool for effective landscape management.
Annual yield of drainage basin.
Evapotranspiration may be estimated by creating an equation of the water balance of a drainage basin.
It is long with a drainage basin of.
A drainage basin is the area drained by a main river and other connected rivers.
Most of these efforts focus on local drainage basin management.
All the water in the drainage basin flows downhill toward bigger rivers.
The lake covers an area of and has a drainage basin of about.
The drainage basin also held three iron and steel plants and a number of mines.
Largest drainage basin.
But the emphasis is put on what is called the drainage basin.
Central drainage basin.
It also determined on the basis of length and width of the drainage basin.
Within a drainage basin.
Surficial geology and soils are important measures of the fundamental characteristics of a drainage basin.
The dashed red line is the drainage basin of one of its tributaries.
Two or more reservoirs are often used to maximize the supply potential of a drainage basin.
The boundaries that delineate a drainage basin usually follow heights of land.
This is usually the lowest point along the boundary of the drainage basin.
This ravine acts as a natural drainage basin for anything displaced by the flood.

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