Watershed

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

Music

Bands

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

Albums and songs

• Watershed (Grant McLennan album)
• Watershed (k.d. lang album)
• Watershed (Opeth album)
• "Watershed", a song on the album Nomads Indians Saints by the Indigo Girls
• "Wattershed", a song on 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 (broadcasting), a time each evening after which certain material may be shown
• Watershed (Bristol), a cross-artform organisation and venue

See also

• European Watershed
• List of watershed topics
• Watersheddings, the site of a rugby league stadium