catchment area

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

From BBC

The study, the largest to date by the Lisbon-based European drugs monitoring agency EMCDDA, analysed daily wastewater in the catchment areas of treatment plants serving some 54 million people in 104 European cities.

From Reuters

"In greater Lisbon we have two million people and this is not enough in terms of catchment area, so we try to be as active as possible across the country," Mil-Homens explains.

From BBC

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

From BBC

The council said 35 of the school's current 47 pupils came from outside its catchment area.

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