Watershed Monitoring - Watershed Counts

Monitoring Matters: How We Track the Health of Our Watershed

By Dorothy SkaggsPosted on October 7, 2025Posted in Watershed Monitoring

Why Monitoring Is Essential Water resource management strictly depends on watershed monitoring programs. Scientific teams, together with resource managers, obtain relevant information on water quality, along with habitat data and biological community structures, to evaluate the condition of rivers and streams and surrounding territories. The collected data serve essential purposes, including detecting pollution sources, monitoring […]

Resilient Communities: Preparing the Watershed for Climate Extremes

By Dorothy SkaggsPosted on August 2, 2025Posted in Climate Change, Watershed Monitoring

Understanding the Challenge The worldwide reality shows that climate extremes composed of storm intensity and extreme droughts together with heightened temperatures and rising sea levels occur more commonly and intensively. The water system that moves land-based water toward rivers and lakes and bays stands as the central point in this difficulty. The state of watersheds […]