Category Watershed

Hydrology: Application & Its Importance

Hydrology importance and application

Hydrology is the science that treats the waters of the earth, their occurrence, circulation, and distribution, their chemical and physical properties, and their reaction to their environment, including their relation to living things.   The domain of hydrology embraces the full…

Sub-Watershed and Its Prioritization

subwatershed

A watershed is an area of land from which all the water drains to a common point into a stream, a channel, a lake, a reservoir, or other body of water. A small watershed of a few hectares that drains…

Upstream and Downstream Connectivity Mechanism For Management

upstream downstream watershed linkage

Watershed is an ideal natural unit over which hydrological processes are integratedand for which a water balance may be constructed to show the disposal ofprecipitation into a number of subsequent forms i.e. interception, soil moisture andground storages, evapotranspiration and run-off.…

Characteristics of Watershed

Watershed Characterisitcs

Soil, water, and Vegetation are vital natural resources for the existence of any living organism. These three resources are interdepend and one cannot be managed without proper management of the other two. The literal meaning of watershed is ‘ Divide…