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Watershed management is the study of the relevant characteristics of a watershed aimed at the sustainable distribution of its resources and the process of creating and implementing plans, programs and projects to sustain and enhance watershed functions that affect the plant, animal, and human communities within the watershed boundary. [1]
In North America, "watershed" is used for this sense, while elsewhere terms like "catchment" or "drainage area" are used. A drainage divide is the line that separates neighboring drainage basins. In English-speaking countries outside of North America, this is normally known as a "watershed".
Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin. It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.
A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, [1] watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges , and may be in the form of a single range of hills or mountains , known as a dividing range .
In "Water Privatization Trends in the United States: Human Rights, National Security, and Public Stewardship", Craig Anthony Arnold argues that there is a lack of incentive for private water companies to carry out improvements or maintenance in public water systems that will have lasting benefits beyond their contract term.
“It’s a combination of greater awareness and having better ways to detect what’s in our water,” he says. All of this doesn’t mean that water is less safe than it was before, though ...
Plantar fasciitis is caused by a number of factors, such as overuse and muscle imbalances in the foot and leg, and it’s surprisingly common.
Watershed College, a boarding school in Zimbabwe; Watershed Distillery, Columbus, Ohio, US; Watershed High School, Richfield, Minnesota, US; Watershed mine, Far North Queensland, Australia; Watershed Park,a large wooded public park in Olympia, Washington; Watershed Trail, a ex-rail footpath from Roxana to Edwardsville in Illinois, US