"Water as a Weapon: The History of Water Supply Development in Nkayi District, Zimbabwe"
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
This paper argues that much historical and political analysis of Zimbabwe neglects a crucial resource: water.
Commercial agriculture in the dry interior of South Africa is heavily reliant upon irrigation water from the Orange River. Most of this vital water does not fall as rain on South African soil but as rain and snow in the mountains of Lesotho…
The issues discussed provide an interface between ‘green history’ and frameworks for sustainable development. An overview of groundwater exploitation is presented with case studies of low flows, the nitrate issue and salinisation of chalk aquifers.
This article examines the alienation of water users in the lower Colorado River Basin from the river and its delta during the twentieth century.
This article examines in a historical perspective (1930–1970) the water conflicts that have occurred due to technological transformation in water lifting devices (viz.: electric and oil-engine pumpsets) in the agricultural sector in the old Kalingarayan channel and new Lower Bhavani Project canal of the Bhavani River Basin in Tamil Nadu.
The paper asks, what historical conditions made it possible to conceive of hydro technical engineering in moral categories?
This paper traces the emergence in Russia of an interest in water as a public health issue from the 1830s and 1840s through to the modernising Great Reforms, when private interests helped bring older plans into reality.
This article examines water pollution and its control in the United States from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Second World War, a period during which water pollution became an interstate problem.
Salinity in Victoria’s irrigated districts can be understood as the result not only of environmental predisposition and technological inadequacies, but of a prevailing political philosophy which considered irrigation as a social and economic good per se.
Melinda Laituri, Carson fellow from February to May 2011, talks about her research project, “Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds,” a comparative, historical-geographical analysis of the Danube and the Colorado rivers.