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Virtual Watershed Tour
Stop 6 - Bringing It All Together: Watershed Management
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Stop 1 - Headwaters
Headwater streams are many, but they are also the smallest streams in the watershed - some only a few inches wide, the largest only a few feet wide. The land here is often steep and the water may run fast, forming small waterfalls and pools. Headwater streams may form from surface runoff, melting snow, or groundwater that seeps out to the surface as springs.
Now, on to the next stop!
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Here you will notice that we are at the highest point in the watershed
where the water that falls on the land as precipitation begins its journey
down the valley. 
Most
of the water you will see later in the lakes and rivers downstream is
the result of the collected water from hundreds and even thousands of
small headwater streams. For this reason, what happens to and on the
land surrounding the headwaters affects the quality of the rivers and
lakes hundreds of miles away!