Introduction :
■ Watershed management is concerned with the hydrologic
effects of land use and vegetative management. Water is considered
a product of the land which, within limits set by nature, can be
managed just as other renewable natural resources. In watershed
management the emphasis is not on harnessing water in streams but
on managing on the land itself, before it enters the streams or
.ground water basins. Watershed management may be called as handmaid of Engineering Water Development. This is most evident where
engineering structures erected for better water supply and regulations of stream discharge are threatened by erosion and premature
sedimentation, where the remedy lies in the introductionof conservative land use practices and suitable vegetation patterns combatable with the water producing function of