What's Your Watershed?

From a December 2004 MoonLetter

Recently on the ecopsyhology-psychology listserv, people have been signing their names with their 'watersheds'. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, "[w]e all live in a watershed -- the area that drains to a common waterway, such as a stream, lake, estuary, wetland, or even the ocean -- and our individual actions can directly affect it."

Which watershed do you live in?
If you live in the U.S., you can go to http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm and scroll down to type in your zip code. This will bring up a list of codes. When you click on each code, I recommend following the links to "Environmental Websites Involving this Watershed" and "Citizen-based Groups at work in this watershed". You can even Adopt Your Watershed!

And for all you teachers and parents out there: check out the "Watershed Patch Program" and this water site and "Discover Your Place in Your Habitat" and "The GLOBE Programme"...

Now, for Canadians and Brits... I'm afraid I haven't been able to find anything as comprehensive or informative as the EPA one... But the United Kingdom does have a Waterway Guide that may point you in the right direction.

If anyone finds good watershed website information for other countries, I'd love to know those links! For me, I've had to do some partial guessing...

I live in Thornbury (UK), which has four unnamed streams. The closest one to me is kind of called Millstream but I can find no information about where exactly that leads. But I do live near the River Severn, which leads to the Bristol Channel, which empties out into the Atlantic Ocean...

It would be great if you would leave a comment telling us YOUR watershed (as best you can).