What is a Catchment?

A Catchment is just what it sounds like: an area of land that catches rainwater and sends it down to the lowest point. What happens to water on the way over and through the ground, creeks, lakes, lagoons, wetlands and on to the ocean is of concern to every living thing in the catchment.

Catchments can be further broken down into sub-catchments, which are simply the smaller areas of land that drain into a particular area, through smaller waterways like creeks, streams and wetlands.