» See reclaim for other uses. Reclamation's the process of reclaiming something from loss or from a less useful condition. It's generally used of water reclamation, which, a century ago meant damming streams (thus the US Bureau of Reclamation owning dams), and now has come to be used to describe wastewater reclamation. Land reclamation Mine reclamation River reclamation Water reclamation… (More on Reclamation)