The land area embraced in districts must be contiguous and must lie within a well- defined watershed area or subwatershed areas. The districts may embrace lands lying in one or more soil and water conservation districts, or lands lying partly within and partly outside a soil and water conservation district. History: 1953 Comp., § 45-5-23, enacted by Laws 1957, ch. 210, § 5; 1973, ch. 332, § 3; 1977, ch. 254, § 47.