Water history links
IWHA (International Water History Association)
International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage - History working groups
American Society for Environmental History
European Society for Environmental History
Society for the History of Technology
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Old photos
This section is devoted to collecting old water photos and postcards.
It is under construction and persons interested in this initiative are welcome to contact us.
Old maps
This section is devoted to collecting old water maps, showing river systems, irrigation networks, etc.
It is under construction and persons interested in this initiative are welcome to contact us.
Old books
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This section provides links to books that are in the public-domain and that are either available in various digital libraries or have been scanned/provided by contributors to this website.
Australia | Brazil | Egypt | India | Italy | France | Morocco |
Netherlands | Spain | United States |
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Mémoires sur les principaux travaux d'utilité publiqué éxécutés en Egypte (1873) Louis Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds |
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(1884) F. Paponot |
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Reports Upon the Administration of the Irrigation Services in Egypt and in the Sudan (1888) C.C Scott Moncrieff |
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(1894) William E. Garstin |
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The Delta barrage of lower Egypt (1902) Robert Hanbury Brown |
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(1902) Alfred Deakin |
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(1906) José Nicoláu, Narciso Puig de la Bellacasa y Sánchez |
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Irrigations en Egypte, Second edition (1911) |
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(1913) William Willcocks |
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(1804) Antoine-François Andréossy |
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De la législation sur les cours d'eau (1817) Baron de Monville |
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Mémoire sur les cours d’eau et les canaux d’arrosage des Pyrénées-Orientales (1821) Jaubert de Passa |
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(1843-44) Nadault de Buffon |
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(1845) François Xavier Paul Garnier |
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Manuel juridique et pratique de l'irrigateur, avec plans lithographiés (1846) Benjamin Vignerte |
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De l'emploi des eaux en agriculture (1849) M.-A. Puvis |
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Du Service hydraulique en France, de son importance et de son avenir (1849) Jules Teissier-Rolland |
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(1852) M. Bertin, suivi des Rapports de MM. Dalloz et Passy et de la législation étrangère |
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(1862) Léopold Seguin |
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(1874) Georges Allard |
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Andréossy |
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(1886) William Hammond Hall |
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(1887-04) H. de Lalande |
Hydraulique agricole: aménagement des eaux (1889) J. Charpentier de Cossigny |
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(1888-90) A. Ronna |
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(1844) M de Mauny de Mornay |
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(1861) Nadault de Buffon |
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(1886) William Hammond Hall |
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Italian irrigation. A report on the agricultural canals of Piedmont and Lombardy R. Baird Smith |
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(1902) Alfred Deakin |
D'alcune istituzioni agrarie dell'alta Italia applicabili a sollievo dell'Irlanda Carlo Cattaneo |
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Notizie naturali e civili su la Lombardia (Version 2) (18??) Carlo Cattaneo |
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Du régime des eaux et particulièrement de celles qui servent aux irrigations Giacomo Giovanetti |
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(1902) Jean Brunhes |
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Política hidráulica: misión social de los riegos en España (1911) Joaquín Costa |
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Informe sobre el espediente del riego y canalización general de la Península (1837) Antonio Prat |
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Memoria sobre el riego de los campos de Madrid con las aguas del Lozoya (1866) Juan de Ribera |
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Manual de canales de riego : que comprende su trazado, construcción y legislación (1870) Mariano Riera y Perera |
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Ley y reglamento de canales y pantanos de riego (1871) |
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(1886) William Hammond Hall |
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Ordenanzas y costumbres de la huerta de Murcia compiladas y comentadas por Pedro Díaz Cassou (1889) Pedro Díaz Cassou |
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(1895) José Ramón Ibarrol |
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(1908) Juan Moraleda y Esteban |
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Los riegos en la provincia de Tarragona : orientaciones sociales agrarias José Elías de Molins |
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Les diférents systèmes d'irrigation: Espagne (1908) |
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Irrigation and Society in Medieval Valencia (1970) Thomas F. Glick |
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(1903) Elwood Mead |
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Irrigation in the United States (1906) Frederick Haynes Newell |
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(1906-1908) R.A van Sandick (Institut international des civilisations) |
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(1908) William Smythe |
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(1910) Andrew Jackson Wells |
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Reclaiming the arid West; the story of the United States reclamation service (1917) George Wharton |
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L'utilisation et le contrôle des eaux aux États-Unis. Rapport de la Mission française d'outre-mer (1952) Mission française d'outre-mer. |
Archives
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Water-society relationships are mutually constituted over long periods of time. Scholarship and thinking in general always benefit from an investigation of the historical dimensions of water-related problems that are linked to social and environmental changes occuring at different time scales.
This Water Alternatives 'stream' is devoted to compiling archival material of interest on water, including old books, maps and photos. In most cases we provide direct links to libraries and respositories that make these documents available. Other documents are public-domain documents that have been scanned/provided by contributors to this website.
This stream will also offer wikipedia-like pages on the chronology of main historical water issues by country, with links to the documents inventoried and pages dedicated to specific topics.
If you have old documents, maps or photos that are in the public domain you are welcome to help us make valuable historical material available.