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

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