Watershed

Watersheds are all over our provinces, epically Saskatchewan. They provide shelter and a habitat for marine and mammal life. A watershed can also be called a river basin, drainage area, water basin, catchment area, or a catchment basin. A watershed acts like a funnel, it collects all the water in the area covered by the watershed and channeling it into a water way. Each watershed is separated by a berrier, like a mountain, or a hill. Watersheds are important to us, because without watersheds important marine habitats are lost and destroyed.

A watershed is known as a water divide. A watershed is a part of the land where rain water, melting snow draining down to a body of water. Which could be a river, like, wetland, sea, ocean, or reservoir. A watershed can have both streams, and rivers leading into the watershed. A watershed carries water ‘shed’ from the land.

What we do to the land effects the water that flows down it and into streams. The streams eventually flow into the watersheds which affects the habitats that are in it. It is able to hurt, endanger, or even kill the wildlife, or maybe us. Ways we are destroying our watersheds are by emitting toxic poloution, and the destruction of natural areas. We can help our watersheds by not polluting or destroying natural areas. We also are able to help more by not pouring things that you don’t want in a lake. Even though the water is cleaned, some of the chemicals can not get removed and it will go back into a natural marine habitat. Those are just some of the things you can do. Without water everything and all things would die in this world. Like trees, bugs, humans, plant life, and all mammals, and marine life. We all need water, so that is why we need our water, and our watersheds.



By: Grayson W.

Editors: Dallas, Mrs.Perrey, and Jesse.