catchment
kach muhnt
- n a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)
- The systems divert water from streams and rivers and use it to run turbines without complex dams or catchment areas.
- The monsoon rains that inundated Jakarta in early February were exacerbated by the city's inability to control rampant overdevelopment, which critics say is eating up catchment .
- And unchecked development is eroding green areas critical to absorbing rainfall: a former catchment area in Kemang, South Jakarta, now an expat enclave, saw its worst flooding in .