What is a Watershed?
Everybody in the world lives in one watershed or another. A watershed is an area of land where all the water that seeps into it or flows through it empties into the same larger body of water. For example, there are thousands of little creeks, streams, and small rivers that empty into the large Susquehanna River. There’s also lots of land that soaks up rainwater and sends it to the Susquehanna. All that land and those creeks, streams, and small rivers are part of the Susquehanna River watershed. • The Susquehanna River watershed is a part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Chesapeake Bay watershed is huge. There are hundreds of miles of land and thousands of creeks, rivers, and streams that are a part of it.
