What are the advantages of watershed management?

Advantages:

• Reduces Pollution
• It helps replenish the groundwater.
• It is run and maintained by the locals. Therefore its benefits are distributed to the local people.
• Mismanagement and over-exploitation of these natural resources are reduced because the locals are controlling them.
• It helps to increase the production of crops.

Disadvantages:

• Watershed building involves huge costs.
• The area required for building a watershed should have adequate rainfall. So the areas where a watershed can be built are very few.
• Watersheds require regular maintenance.

Further Reading:

• Water – A Resource
• Water Scarcity