What is Watershed Development?
Watershed Development refers to treatment of an area to get different direct & indirect livelihood benefits through studying, taming, harvesting and utilizing water as it falls, flows or accumulates on a unit of land shaped by its influence. To tame the running water as well as to harvest it on site and reduce runoff and soil loss, soil and water conservation measures are applied. The effectiveness of these measures increases manifold when the water flow is treated from top to bottom across topo sequences on a watershed basis tackling both cause and effect through preventive and remedial measures.
Related Questions
- Why is the focus of the update exclusively on shoreline property owners? Are not most of the impacts caused by development of the watershed generally?
- Can changes in population status or habitat quality be correlated with development and management practices within the watershed?
- Is CCFCC opposed to future development in the watershed?
