List four advantages of properly managed watershed management.

Watershed management is an adaptive, integrated multi resource management process. The advantages of watershed management are as follows-

1. Ecological Health- A healthy watershed supports sustainable streams, lakes, rivers and promotes conservation of water. It also reduces the effects of erosion and flooding and avoids contamination of groundwater, streams etc.

2. Human health- A properly managed watershed provides safe drinking water, helps better adaptation to environment by cooling the air and provides healthy recreational zone to people.

3. Economic health – Clean water is required in all the commercial, household, industrial activities. Thus a healthy and properly managed watershed will meet the requirements at reasonable costs mitigating the impacts of floods, droughts etc. This also helps in bring more tourism in the country.

4. Balanced Ecology - It helps in maintaining the balance between the primary resources of land and water; secondary resources of plants and animals.