What is a Watershed?
Watershed Explained
Maybe the simplest definition of a watershed comes from the National Geographic: A watershed is an area of land that drains rainwater and snowmelt into streams and rivers.
In other words,
Illustration of a Watershed
Visual description of a watershed from Seacoast Science Center
- "What's a Watershed? Seacoast Science Center
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) definition of a watershed
- Explainer: What is a watershed? by Earth.org
- How watersheds work, HowStuffWorks
- The United States Environmental Protection Agency, What is a watershed pdf
John Wesley Powell watershed description and map
John Wesley Powell, the 19th century geologist, and explorer described a watershed as: “that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community.” (Science Friday)
Arid Region of the United States Showing Drainage Districts: A map showing subdivision of the western United States by natural "drainage commonwealths" by John Wesley Powell (1890a, 1890b).
- The Map That Changed How We View the West, from Science Friday
- Report on the Arid Lands of the United States, Library of Congress
- The Visionary John Wesley Powell Had a Plan for Developing the West But Nobody Listened, from Smithsonian Institution
- Map image, Arid Region of the United States, retrieved from researchgate.net
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