List four advantages of properly managed watershed management.
Four advantages of properly managed watershed management are :
- Watershed management emphasizes scientific soil and water conservation in order to increase the biomass production. It strictly maintains the water quality.
- Watershed management develops primary resources of land and water, to produce secondary resources of plants and animals for use in a manner which will not cause ecological imbalance.
- Watershed management increases the production and income of the watershed community.
- It mitigates droughts and floods and increases the life of the downstream dam and reservoirs.