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A river basin is the portion of land that's drained by a river
and it's tributaries. Now a river basin is going to cover a huge amount of land area that's going
to be drained by the streams and creeks into a primary river.
Once that water gets into a river its final destination is usually
going to be an estuary or some kind of an ocean.
The map that you've got on the screen is a map of
North Carolina's 17 river basins. The one that we live in is
called the Neuse and the Neuse River Basin drains into the
Pamlico Sound. Everyone lives in a river basin even if you don't
live near water. For example, I live in an apartment and there's
nothing water-based around there--no creeks or rivers--but
all the water that fall where I live is eventually end up in the Neuse River.
The actions of people that live in one part of a river basin
are going to affect all of the people living downstream.
If you life at the very top of the Neuse River Basin which is
over near Greensboro, your actions are going to affect the
people who live down near the bottom of the Neuse River Basin
which ends up down near Little Washington. So you have to
be very careful about what you put in there. What you do
now is going to drain down there and affect everybody else
living downstream from you.