No matter where you live, your home is in a watershed: a land area that drains to a central location, such as a lake, river, or ocean. Watersheds impact everyone; every community, farm, ranch, and forest. They provide a vital resource for all living things to survive and thrive.
There are countless watersheds across California — some as large as the San Francisco Bay, some as small as a creek — each of them important and unique.
The map above shows the boundaries of the thousands of watersheds in California. Watersheds can be described as “nested” – larger watersheds encompass many smaller watersheds. They all fit together like puzzle pieces to form our land masses.
What exactly is a watershed? When water falls as rain or snow, it flows downhill, coming together as creeks, streams, and rivers and eventually reaches an outlet, a body of water such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean. The entire area of land that the water flows through is called a […]
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