Links to information about watersheds and the watershed approach to improving water quality and stream health.
Why watershed management? Watershed-based management is the most effective way to enhance water quality and natural resources, protect critical wildlife habitat, prevent soil erosion and sustain economic activities while managing the pressures of an urbanizing landscape.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) watershed management approach. The watershed approach is a coordinating framework for environmental management that focuses public and private sector efforts to address the highest priority problems within hydrologically defined geographic areas, taking into consideration both ground and surface water flow.
EPA watershed management program. EPA and its partners are working together on a watershed basis to protect the nation's water resources.
