# Seasonal water yield-watershed (vector file)

**URL:** <https://community.naturalcapitalalliance.org/t/seasonal-water-yield-watershed-vector-file/957>\
**Category:** Software Support\
**Tags:** seasonal-water-yield\
**Created:** [April 25, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.naturalcapitalalliance.org/t/seasonal-water-yield-watershed-vector-file/957 "2020-04-25T23:41:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trang\_Luong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Trang\_Luong](https://community.naturalcapitalalliance.org/u/Trang_Luong)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://community.naturalcapitalalliance.org/t/seasonal-water-yield-watershed-vector-file/957/1 "2020-04-25T23:41:32Z")

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Hello, community

I’m going to run the SWY and there seems to have something wrong with the input of Watershed. I have watershed available in \*shp file but it didn’t work. The message said “Watershed (Vector): file could not be opened as a GDAL vector”. Could you please help me with it?  
Thanks very much.

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**Author:** ![dcdenu4](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.naturalcapitalalliance.org/dcdenu4/32/544_2.png) [@dcdenu4](https://community.naturalcapitalalliance.org/u/dcdenu4)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.naturalcapitalalliance.org/t/seasonal-water-yield-watershed-vector-file/957/2 "2020-04-27T12:29:13Z")

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Hi @Trang_Luong,

Thanks for posting to the forums and hopefully we can help resolve the issue. Are you able to open the Shapefile in a GIS software like ArcGIS or QGIS? If you would like to upload the Shapefile or share it through a Google Drive, Dropbox, or other link, I can take a try at troubleshooting. One of the first things I would try is to open the file QGIS and check that it has a valid projection set.

Best,

Doug