drainages

Systems removing water

Drainages is the plural of drainage, referring to multiple systems or areas where water flows away.

In geography, drainages are watershed regions: The western drainages feed into the Pacific.

The term also covers artificial systems: The city's storm drainages need repair.

In medicine, drainages may refer to separate sites or instances of fluid removal from the body.

hydrological

watersheds

Regions draining to outlets

runoff · streams · channels · outflows · watercourses · floodplains · aquifers · headwaters · rivulets · gullies

agricultural

irrigation

Artificial water supply for agriculture

tiles · field · subsurface · waterlogged · soil · groundwater · terracing · contour · swales · berms

infrastructure

stormwater

Surface flow from precipitation

  • sewersUnderground waste conduits
  • pipesCylindrical fluid carriers
  • guttersRooftop water channels

municipal · urban · systems · networks · manholes · catch basins · outfalls · combined · wastewater · treatment

medical

surgical

Relating to operations

  • woundCoiled, or an injury
  • tubesHollow cylindrical containers
  • cathetersTubes inserted into body cavities

abscess · fluid · postoperative · incision · infection · pus · hematoma · gravity · collection · removal

Opposites
water movement direction

drainagesinflows

Streams entering something

influxes · intakes · inputs · infiltrations · inundations

water retention vs. removal

drainagesreservoirs

Bodies storing water supply

catchments · impoundments · retentions · accumulations · cisterns

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