catchment areas
Water gathering regions
Catchment areas are geographic regions from which something draws its population or resources.
A hospital's catchment area is the surrounding zone whose residents it serves.
A school's catchment area determines which children may enroll.
The term comes from hydrology, where a catchment area is land that drains water into a particular river or reservoir.
Property values rise in the catchment areas of good schools.
- basinConcave water receptacle
- watershedDrainage area boundary
- runoffExcess water drainage
- surface waterWater on land's exterior
- water tableTop of groundwater zone
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- schoolingelementary school, school, middle school, high school, primary schools
- water resourcesfreshwater, aquifers, water supply, water storage, aquifer
- hydrologyrivers, streamflow, aquifers, aquifer, lakes
- school districtsschool district, school districts, school boards, school board, district office
- subdivisionscounty, province, state, region, district
- water cyclewater cycle, precipitation, evaporation, condensation, rain
catchment areasdistribution networks
Systems moving goods outward
river mouths · deltas · estuaries · reservoirs · aquifers
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