List of watershed topics

This list embraces topographical watersheds and drainage basins and other topics focused on them.

Terms – different uses

 * The source of a river or stream is the furthest place from its estuary or confluence with another river, and is alternatively known as a "watershed" and/or "headwaters" in some countries.
 * The confluence is the meeting of two rivers or streams, and may sometimes be known as "headwaters".
 * A drainage basin is an area of land where all surface water converges to a single point at a lower elevation. 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".

Drainage divides

 * Drainage divides category
 * The European Watershed, the line dividing the drainage basins of the major rivers of Europe
 * The Drainage divides, the lines dividing drainage basins in North America (i.e.: Great Basin Divide and Great Basin hydrologic region)

Watersheds and drainage basins

 * Basins category
 * Drainage basins category
 * List of drainage basins by area: A worldwide list of watersheds
 * Drainage basins of the Atlantic Ocean category
 * Drainage basins of the Arctic Ocean category

Watersheds - basins by country

 * Watersheds of Canada category
 * Watersheds of the United States category
 * Drainage systems of Australia category

Examples

 * Lake Erie Watershed (Pennsylvania)
 * Guadalupe Watershed
 * Hudson River Watershed
 * Humber Watershed
 * Turtle Creek Watershed

Management organisations

 * Watershed management, the management of drainage basins
 * Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, a United States law controlling drainage and water storage
 * Watershed district (Minnesota), one of a number of government entities in the US state of Minnesota which monitor and regulate the use of water in drainage basins
 * Watershed district (Russia), one of twenty groups of water bodies listed in the Water Code of the Russian Federation

Examples

 * Council for Watershed Health
 * Great Swamp Watershed Association
 * Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
 * Santa Fe Watershed Association
 * Walla Walla Basin Watershed Council
 * Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council

Study institutions

 * University of South Carolina Upstate: Center for Watershed Ecology

Other uses

 * Watershed College, Zimbabwe
 * Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, England
 * Stony Brook Millstone Watershed Arboretum
 * "River of Words"; watersheds as subject poetry competition