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What is a Watershed? Every body of water (e.g., rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and estuaries) has a watershed. The watershed is the area of land that drains or sheds water into a specific receiving water body, such as a lake or a river. As rainwater or melted snow runs downhill in the watershed, it collects and transports sediment and other materials and deposits them into the receiving water body. Why is Watershed Management important? Runoff from rainwater or snow melt can contribute significant amounts of pollution into the lake or river. Watershed management helps to control pollution of the water and other natural resources in the watershed by identifying the different kinds of pollution present in the watershed and how those pollutants are transported, and recommending ways to reduce or eliminate those pollution sources. All activities that occur within a watershed will somehow affect that watershed’s natural resources and water quality. New land devel...

What is Environmental Auditing Environmental Auditing  is essentially an environmental management tool for measuring the effects of certain activities on the environment against set criteria or standards. Depending on the types of standards and the focus of the audit, there are different types of environmental audit. Organizations of all kinds now recognize the importance of environmental matters and accept that their environmental Performance will be scrutinized by a wide range of interested parties. Environmental auditing is used to Investigate Understand Identify These are used to help improve existing human activities, with the aim of reducing the adverse effects of these activities on the environment. An environmental auditor will study Organisation’s Environmental effects in a systematic and documented manner and will produce an Environmental Audit Report. There are many reasons for undertaking an Environmental Audit, which include issues such as Enviro...