The key questions guiding you through the introduction are:

• What is meant by Watershed Management?
• Why is management of natural resources necessary?
• What is meant by planning and management?
• What is required of natural resource management and development?
• How should management and planning carried out?
• What are the challenges for planners and managers?
• How is planning feasible?
• Which tools are available?
• Which planning models are provided?
• Which units can be planned for?
• What is a watershed?
• Why are watersheds a reasonable planning unit?
• Which principles are followed up by Watershed Management?
• What are the effects of sound Watershed Management?
• Which are the objectives of Watershed Management?
• What does Watershed Management comprise?
• What are the features of Watershed Management?
• Which processes influence Watershed Management?
• How has Watershed Management been developed?

Which 'understandings of Watershed Management' exists is explained first.