Worldwide History of Water Supply, Sanitation, Wastewater and Stormwater Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

“One who doesn’t know the history is unable to plan the future”.

The aims of the IWA Specialist Group on Water and Wastewater in Ancient Civilizations (WWAC) are:

(a) To reveal the cultural heritage in various regions of the world and to make visible the archaeological remnants of technologies which have contributed to the development of the existing technologies in water and wastewater management.

(b) To describe and evaluate the old technologies, which on a long term may contribute to water and wastewater management systems and to the development of integrated methodologies.

(c) To develop small systems based on old technologies using new equipment, which may be of great significance for water, wastewater and environmental management in the future.

Themes to be covered:

• Ancient water supply and wastewater sanitation technologies
• Ancient water supply, storm water, and wastewater management technologies: Legacies and lessons
• Methods, practices, and techniques of water and wastewater resources management in ancient civilizations
• Traditional water, rainwater,  and wastewater systems.
• Aquedacts, cisterns, qanats (kareez), foundaints, and wells, and other technologies in ancient civilizations
• Urban water use in the past
• History of irrigation
• Evolution of water and wastewater technologies through the millennia
• Old influence in modern water and wastewater technologies. And
• Socio-economic role of water in ancient civilizations
• Technologies of water and social transformation

Dr. Andreas N. Angelakis
Prof. Xiaoyun Zheng
Guest Editors

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