WATERSHED MANAGEMENT
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Watershed management involves plans and actions for conserving, restoring, and developing watersheds. It aims at maintaining the water quality and ensuring a steady flow of water in streams and rivers. Watershed Management is an adaptable, comprehensive, integrated multi-resource management planning process that aims to balance healthy ecological, economic, and cultural/social conditions within a watershed. It serves to combine land and water planning. Watershed management includes a wide range of stakeholders, including communities, landowners, land use authorities, storm water management specialists, environmental experts, and water usage surveyors. This paper discusses objectives and principle of watershed management .The steps and components of planning of watershed management is discussed in detail. The major challenges and initiatives taken are also discussed in detail to develop insights among scholars.
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