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What is a watershed?

What is a watershed? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (hydrology) The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
  2. (US) A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin.
  3. A critical point marking a change in course or development.
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The Pearl River watershed includes an area containing one-eighth of mainland China's population.
The city council voted unanimously in July to make the entire watershed an ecological reserve.
For the last week or more, Taiwan has been in the throes of the early stages of a major, perhaps a watershed, political scandal.
The site encompasses an entire watershed and thus provides a unique educational opportunity.
Besides being a watershed, a hill area impacts a much larger area in the plains below.
During the last 10 years he has moved on to restoring the entire watershed.

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