Watershed management is the study of the relevant characteristics of a watershed aimed at the sustainable distribution of its resources and the process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects to sustain and enhance watershed functions that affect the plant, animal, and human communities within the watershed boundary.


This project aimed at georeferencing and mapping all the freshwater springs used to provide drinking water to the city of Quito (Ecuador). This project was part of the management plan for the hydrographic micro-basins that supply the center-west drinking water system with the springs Atacazo-Lloa-Pichincha.