rural life
concepts
People involved with natural resource and environmental planning in the United States have sometimes pointed to the desirability of defining community in terms of hydrological, or watershed, boundaries. A community so defined brings together many disparate preexisting communities whose members often have not thought of themselves as comprising a larger community, but whose shared interest in preserving the quality of their environment and their water is actually a potentially powerful unifying force. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Watersheds]
watersheds