A watershed is simply the geographic area through which water flows across the land and drains into a common body of water, whether a stream, river, lake, or ocean.

The different objectives of watershed management programmes are:

1. To control damaging runoff and degradation and thereby conservation of soil and water. …

Watershed management is aimed at the sustainable distribution of its resources and the process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects to sustain and enhance watershed functions that affect the plant, animal, and human communities within the watershed boundary. Watershed management aims to care for natural resources in a …