catchment area

Example Sentences

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In Scotland, local councils use "catchment areas" to decide where students go to school.

From BBC

In Scotland, your council decides which school in your local catchment area your child will attend.

From BBC

You can ask to choose another school, outside of your local catchment area, and the council must allow this if there is space - but it is not guaranteed.

From BBC

Severn Trent pointed to its plan to ensure no river in its catchment areas would be unhealthy because of its operations by 2030.

From BBC

The consequences of the Conger ice shelf collapse are unlikely to be of global significance as the catchment area feeding ice into the former shelf is small.

From Scientific American