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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...
Pages in category "Watersheds"
The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Media in category "Watersheds"
The following 35 files are in this category, out of 35 total.
AB 2480 Meadows and Forest Water Infrastructure.png 481 × 375; 248 KB
About Baselines and Change.png 592 × 312; 33 KB
Bill Mollison 1928-2016.pdf ; 99 KB
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Florida Wildlife Corridor - 2022 illustration.png 800 × 628; 473 KB
Florida Wildlife Corridor FLWC Water Benefits December 2022.png 768 × 886; 109 KB
Hindu Kush-Himalayas - 2023 Report on Dangerous Climate Impacts.png 800 × 819; 1,023 KB
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Landsat, a 50 year legacy.png 528 × 575; 288 KB
Mangroves and Coastal Wetlands tracked by Landsat.png 600 × 716; 245 KB
OaklandWastewater plant.jpg 800 × 399; 125 KB
Permaculture-observation tip.jpg 480 × 540; 86 KB
Rain Garden Design courtesy of www.PermaDesign.com Nate Downey.png 800 × 614; 601 KB
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Secret Life of Rivers.png 800 × 451; 800 KB
Shifting Baseline Syndrome - threats to ecosystems biodiversity.png 431 × 534; 322 KB
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