English-Danish translations for catchment

• afvandingsområde
  Det drejer sig primært om EU's landbrug i Østersøens afvandingsområde. It mainly relates to EU agriculture in the Baltic Sea catchment basin.
  0,5 % af verdens befolkning lever i dens afvandingsområde, selv om ca. 10 % af verdens søtransport passerer igennem den. Approximately 0.5% of the world’s people live in its catchment area, although around 10% of the world’s sea traffic passes through it.
  For det femte skal vi under det ungarske formandskab som led i Donaustrategien begynde at oprense og genopdyrke bassinerne for industri- og minedriftsaffald i Donaus afvandingsområde. Fifthly, during the Hungarian Presidency, as part of the Danube strategy, we must start to clear up and recultivate the industrial and mining waste reservoirs in the catchment area of the Danube.

Definition of catchment

• Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water
• A catchment area, or the people it serve#Verb|serves

Related words

• catch
• cowcatcher
• catcher
• oystercatcher
• catchfly
• Chat-Flycatcher
• Fiscal-Flycatcher
• catching
• bycatch