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We all live in a watershed -- http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/index.cfm


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_divide
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We all live in a watershed. What's your watershed?
 
* http://water.epa.gov/type/watersheds/index.cfm
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_divide
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_basin
 
 
''A drainage basin or catchment basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain, melting snow, or ice converges to a single point at a lower elevation, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean. For example, a tributary stream of a brook that joins a small river is tributary of a larger river, which is thus part of a series of successively smaller area but higher elevation drainage basins. Similarly, the Missouri and Ohio rivers are each part of their own drainage basins and that of the Mississippi River.''
 
''Other terms that are used to describe drainage basins are catchment, catchment area, drainage area, river basin and water basin. In North America, the term watershed is commonly used to mean a drainage basin, though in other English-speaking countries, it is used only in its original sense, to mean a drainage divide, the former meaning an area, the latter the high elevation perimeter of that area. Drainage basins drain into other drainage basins in a hierarchical pattern, with smaller sub-drainage basins combining into larger drainage basins...''
 
 
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[[File:US River basins - watersheds.jpg]]
 
US Watersheds / River Basins - Drainage Basins
 
 
River Basins-Watershed Maps avail at GrasshopperGeography - https://www.etsy.com/shop/GrasshopperGeography?section_id=20096462
 
US Maps created by Imgur user Fejetlenfej
 
Visit http://imgur.com/gallery/N4cUA for US mapping
 
Open-source QGIS software -- http://qgis.org/en/site/
 
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_basin
:* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3860062/The-veins-America-Stunning-map-shows-river-basin-US.html


A drainage basin or catchment basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain, melting snow, or ice converges to a single point at a lower elevation, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean. For example, a tributary stream of a brook that joins a small river is tributary of a larger river, which is thus part of a series of successively smaller area but higher elevation drainage basins. Similarly, the Missouri and Ohio rivers are each part of their own drainage basins and that of the Mississippi River.
:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook


Other terms that are used to describe drainage basins are catchment, catchment area, drainage area, river basin and water basin. In North America, the term watershed is commonly used to mean a drainage basin, though in other English-speaking countries, it is used only in its original sense, to mean a drainage divide, the former meaning an area, the latter the high elevation perimeter of that area. Drainage basins drain into other drainage basins in a hierarchical pattern, with smaller sub-drainage basins combining into larger drainage basins...


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We all live in a watershed. What's your watershed?


A drainage basin or catchment basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain, melting snow, or ice converges to a single point at a lower elevation, usually the exit of the basin, where the waters join another waterbody, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean. For example, a tributary stream of a brook that joins a small river is tributary of a larger river, which is thus part of a series of successively smaller area but higher elevation drainage basins. Similarly, the Missouri and Ohio rivers are each part of their own drainage basins and that of the Mississippi River.

Other terms that are used to describe drainage basins are catchment, catchment area, drainage area, river basin and water basin. In North America, the term watershed is commonly used to mean a drainage basin, though in other English-speaking countries, it is used only in its original sense, to mean a drainage divide, the former meaning an area, the latter the high elevation perimeter of that area. Drainage basins drain into other drainage basins in a hierarchical pattern, with smaller sub-drainage basins combining into larger drainage basins...


Watershed monitoring earthscience m.png


US River basins - watersheds.jpg

US Watersheds / River Basins - Drainage Basins


River Basins-Watershed Maps avail at GrasshopperGeography - https://www.etsy.com/shop/GrasshopperGeography?section_id=20096462

US Maps created by Imgur user Fejetlenfej

Visit http://imgur.com/gallery/N4cUA for US mapping

Open-source QGIS software -- http://qgis.org/en/site/


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