Watershed may refer to:

Hydrology

Drainage divide A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a single ...

, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins *

Drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

, an area of land where surface water converges (North American usage)

Music

* Watershed Music Festival, an annual country music event in George, Washington, US

Bands

Watershed (American band) Watershed is an American Rock music, rock band based in Columbus, Ohio, consisting of Colin Gawel (guitar, Singing, vocals), Joe Oestreich (bass guitar, bass, Singing, vocals), Rick Kinsinger (guitar, piano), Herb Schupp (Drum kit, drums). Their ...

, rock band active since 1987 * Watershed (South African band), pop-rock band active since 1998

Works

* ''Watershed'' (Grant McLennan album), the debut solo album by Grant McLennan * ''Watershed'' (k.d. lang album), the fifth solo studio album by k.d. lang * ''Watershed'' (Opeth album), the ninth full-length studio album by Opeth * "The Watershed", a song by Mark Hollis, from his eponymous album ''

Mark Hollis Mark David Hollis (4 January 1955 – February 2019) was an English musician and singer-songwriter. He achieved commercial success and critical acclaim in the 1980s and 1990s as the co-founder, lead singer and principal songwriter of the band ...

'' * "Watershed", a song on the album ''

Anaïs Mitchell Anaïs Mitchell (; born March 26, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and playwright. Mitchell has released eight studio albums, including ''Hadestown (album), Hadestown'' (2010), ''Young Man in America'' (2012),Nomads Indians Saints ''Nomads Indians Saints'' is the third studio album by Indigo Girls, released in 1990. It was reissued and remastered in 2000 with three bonus tracks. Track listing #"Hammer and a Nail" (Emily Saliers) – 3:50 #"Welcome Me" (Amy Ray) – 4:36 # ...

'' by the Indigo Girls * "Wattershed", a song by Foo Fighters on their 1995 eponymous debut album * ''Watershed'', a 2022 oratorio based on the

murder of George Duncan George Ian Ogilvie Duncan (20 July 1930 – 10 May 1972) was an Australian law lecturer at the University of Adelaide who drowned in 1972 after being thrown into the River Torrens by a group of men believed to be police officers. Public outrage ...

in Adelaide, South Australia

Places

* Watershed, Bristol, an arts and media venue in England *

Watershed College Watershed College (or Watershed) is a private boarding school situated near Marondera in Zimbabwe. The College provides secondary education as well as an Agricultural course for girls and boys between the ages of 13 and 19. Watershed College ...

, a boarding school in Zimbabwe *

Watershed Distillery Watershed Distillery is a microdistillery in Columbus, Ohio, United States, founded in 2010 by business partners Greg Lehman and Dave Rigo. The distillery was the second distillery opened in Central Ohio after prohibition, and Watershed brought ...

, Columbus, Ohio, US *

Watershed High School Watershed High School is a charter school located in the city of Richfield, Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ont ...

, Richfield, Minnesota, US *

Watershed mine The Watershed mine is a large open pit mine located about 160 km northwest of Cairns on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. Watershed represents one of the largest tungsten reserves in Australia having estimated reserves ...

, Far North Queensland, Australia *

Watershed Park Watershed Park is a 153-acre temperate rain forest public park located in Olympia, Washington that supplied almost all the city's water from privately established wells in the late 1800s. The city acquired and operated the wells starting in 1917 u ...

,a large wooded public park in Olympia, Washington *

Watershed Trail The Watershed Trail is a rail trail in Edwardsville, Illinois Edwardsville is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The population was 26,808 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city was name ...

, a ex-rail footpath from Roxana to Edwardsville in Illinois, US

Science and technology

Watershed area (medical) Watershed area is the medical term referring to regions of the body, that receive dual blood supply from the most distal branches of two large arteries, such as the splenic flexure of the large intestine. The term refers metaphorically to a geolo ...

, an area with overlapping blood supply **

Watershed stroke A watershed stroke is defined as a brain ischemia that is localized to the vulnerable border zones between the tissues supplied by the anterior, posterior and middle cerebral arteries. The actual blood stream blockage/restriction site can be l ...

, a stroke in a brain watershed *

Watershed (image processing) In the study of image processing, a watershed is a transformation defined on a grayscale image. The name refers metaphorically to a geological ''watershed'', or drainage divide, which separates adjacent drainage basins. The watershed transformatio ...

, algorithms used in image processing * Watershed LRS, a

Learning Record Store A Learning Record Store (LRS) is a data store system that serves as a repository for learning records collected from connected systems where learning activities are conducted. It is an essential component in the process flow for using the Experienc ...

and Learning Analytics Platform

Television and radio

Watershed (broadcasting) In broadcasting, the watershed is the time of day after which programming with content deemed suitable only for mature or adult audiences is permitted. In the same way that a geological watershed divides two drainage basins, a broadcasting wate ...

, a time of day when adult programming begins * "Watershed" (''Soulmates''), a 2020 television episode