What is "catchments"

Usage examples of "catchments".

No other shrubs grow near these catchments where the vines do their work.

On a fifty-fifty basis with tens of thousands of farmers, we've also built thou­sands of small plastic-lined, plastic-covered catchments to minimize winter-rain runoff.

The city has sophisticated snow-removal equipment, heating cables buried in the streets, sanitation trucks with melt-tanks, an armada of scoops and catchments and scrapers and skimmers, but no gadgetry could cope with a season that dropped ten centimetres of snow on Wednesday, a dozen more on Friday, fifteen on Monday, half a metre on Saturday.