The watershed program offers technical assistance to watershed groups, municipalities, and individual citizens. A watershed is a geographic area of land across which water, and the sediments and dissolved materials it contains, flow on their way to a single common outlet -- a stream, lake or river.
What is Lumboperitoneal Shunt? Lumboperitoneal (LP) shunt is an artificial connection created by neurosurgeons which allows excess of cerebrospinal fluid to leave the subarachnoid space and enter the peritoneum. From there, the fluid is easily absorbed and eliminated via the circulatory system and the kidneys.
The goal of putting in a shunt is to drain the CSF that your child's body makes each day (about a pint). This creates normal pressure inside your child's head. The shunt has three parts: 1  A tube that goes into the ventricle where fluid is building up. 2  A valve that controls how much fluid drains out. 3  This controls the pressure in your child's head and keeps fluid flowing away from the brain only. 4  A tube that comes off the valve and goes into some other part of the body.