A water catchment area.
a watershed
Because it is the land area that supplies water to a river system :)
Because it is the land area that supplies water to a river system :)
A water catchment area.
The land area that supplies water to a river system.
I am afraid not, my dear boy.
watershed
The land area that supplies water to a river stream.I think this is incorrect:my understanding is that a drainage basin is somthing that supplies a river or stream, a water shed is a dividing line between drainage basins?
This is the 'river catchment'.
the drainage basin
The catchment is the correct answer. Commonly folk say 'watershed' but the watershed is the boundary (ridges etc) of the catchment.
An area drained by a river or river system is called a drainage basin.
Poisoning the river waters and down stream water supplies and killing marine life in the area of the dump site.