Welcome to Manage My Watershed, a community site where you can share knowledge and resources supporting fresh water. Manage My Watershed is part of WikiWatershed, an initiative of Stroud Water Research Center designed to help people advance knowledge and stewardship of fresh water.
While guests can view watershed stories, freshwater stewardship tools, and forum questions, to contribute material you’ll need to register as a member.
Newest Stories
Why Model Your Watershed?
Environmental organizations and educators are finding more and more emphasis on how to protect our watersheds, monitor them, and bring ...
The Relativeness of Water
In the cosmology of Indigenous cultures, “water is life” holds a deeper, ancient, implicit value beyond its mainstream context ...
How to See a Stream: Part Two, Stream Monitoring and Impairment
What can one do to help a stream recover from pollution, protect a stream from degradation, or simply understand what ...
How to See a Stream: Part One, Stream Health Dynamics
Streams and the valleys they drain are complex environments. This complexity makes regulating, restoring, and protecting these aquatic systems a ...
An Interview With Pete Goodman
Wisdom and advice on watershed protection from a prodigious environmental leader you've (possibly) never heard of ...
Saving Primrose Creek
It is January 30, 2021, at 1:35 PM (UTC-5:00). In two hours, streamflow at Phillips Mill, Solebury Township, Bucks County, ...
Newest Tools
Tools for Engaging With Municipalities and the Public on Freshwater Issues
Guidance Documents The Delaware River Basin Policy and Practice Workgroup has developed guidance documents to provide foundational science references for environmental advocates collecting stream data and communicating results to local government officials. The target readership ...
Pennsylvania Watershed Organizations Interactive Map
Searching for a watershed organization near you? This online mapping tool can help you find a community watershed organization, watershed alliance, or regional partner. These organizations can help you understand watershed issues and help empower ...
USGS StreamStats
StreamStats provides access to spatial analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning and management, and for engineering and design purposes. The map-based user interface can be used to delineate drainage areas, get basin characteristics ...
Member Activity
Carol Armstrong commented on the post, How to See a Stream: Part One, Stream Health Dynamics 5 years, 2 months ago
Thank you David for describing the linkages of our streams to our natural world through the lives of aquatic wildlife, and how we are dependent on their ‘activities of daily living’ to have a stream that is a […]
Carol Armstrong commented on the post, The Relativeness of Water 5 years, 2 months ago
It has taken centuries for our U.S. society to begin to acknowledge that we have missed out on critical knowledge and experience living within a human monoculture of ideas and beliefs. Thank you Jacqline for your […]
Sarah commented on the post, Why Model Your Watershed? 5 years, 2 months ago
I’m so glad you liked ModelMyWatershed. It’s a great tool! And it definitely benefits decision making to think on the watershed level. Thanks for all you do to help educate children and adults!
Sarah became a registered member 5 years, 2 months ago
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Scott Ensign wrote a new post 5 years, 2 months ago
Water Reporter is an app that connects people and organizations working to protect watersheds. The social network of users collect and share water observations and watershed information in an effort to build […]