Question

Explain




WATERSHED MANAGEMENT in detail ........
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Answer 1

Water resource management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources. ... Ideally, water resource management planning has regard to all the competing demands for water and seeks to allocate water on an equitable basis to satisfy all uses and demands.

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Answer 2

Watershed management is a term used to describe the process of implementing land use practices and water management practices to protect and improve the quality of the water and other natural resources within a watershed by managing the use of those land and water resources in a comprehensive manner.

The first steps in watershed management planning are to:

Delineate and map the watershed’s boundaries and the smaller drainage basins within the watershed;

Inventory and map the resources in the watershed;

Inventory and map the natural and manmade drainage systems in the watershed;

Inventory and map land use and land cover;

Inventory and map soils;

Identify areas of erosion, including stream banks and construction sites;

Identify the quality of water resources in the watershed as a baseline; and

Inventory and map pollution sources, both point sources (such as industrial discharge pipes) and nonpoint sources (such as municipal stormwater systems, failing septic systems, illicit discharges).