Watershed Research Paper

A Watershed is streams and rivers that share the same land that drain in a larger location of water. Such as larger rivers, lakes, or an ocean. "All the tributaries to the Mississippi that collect rainwater eventually drain into the Mississippi, which eventually drains into the Gulf of Mexico" is a great example of describing it.(m.b.g.,2002) There are two processes that are very important, surface runoff and infiltration. The main reason is it affects the water quality, and carries a lot of pollution. A lot of the pollution comes from farmland since it has a lot of agricultural debris, industrial, commercial and other. A lot of it ends of falling into the ocean which is left there and affects the water quality in a dramatic form.

A problem with the watershed is that there is many ways of streams that allow the water to run all the way down. The cement, train tracks, streets , etc. all Carry multiple pollutants. This is a very big problem because it's where the majority of the water quality goes bad. This problem can be solved with the help of every owner of a house planting a tree
Planting trees will help collect water.
It will most definitely absorb a lot since trees are no small plants. If we have $1000 to start off the project we would announce it on the news. Once that we have a good crowd that actually is interested in the topic we can start by having a fundraiser to be able to buy trees for areas that get a lot of rain fall. Then we would just continue the project as is and see how the watershed
improves.