Watershed

Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:

Hydrology

• Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
• Drainage basin, in North American usage, an area of land where surface water converges

Science and technology

• Watershed (image processing), algorithms used in image processing
• Watershed area (medical), an area with overlapping blood supply
  • Watershed stroke, a stroke in a brain watershed
• Watershed LRS, a Learning Record Store and Learning Analytics Platform

Music

Bands

• Watershed (American band), rock band active 1987–present
• Watershed (South African band), pop-rock band active 1998–present

Albums and songs

• 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
• "Watershed", a song on the album Nomads Indians Saints by the Indigo Girls
• "Wattershed", a song by Foo Fighters on their 1995 eponymous debut album
• "The Watershed", a song by Mark Hollis, from his eponymous album Mark Hollis

Other uses

• Watershed (Bristol), a cross-artform organization and venue
• Watershed (broadcasting), a time each evening after which certain material may be shown
• Watershed mine, a large open pit mine in Far North Queensland, Australia
• Watershed College, a private boarding school in Zimbabwe
• Watershed Distillery, a microdistillery in Columbus, Ohio
• Watershed High School, a charter school located in the city of Richfield, Minnesota
• Watershed Music Festival, an annual country music festival in George, Washington
• Watershed Park, temperate rain forest public park located in Olympia, Washington
• Watershed Trail, rail trail from Roxana to Edwardsville, Illinois

See also

• European watershed
• List of watershed topics
• Watersheddings, the site of a rugby league stadium
• Watershed district (disambiguation)