www.crcpress.com K27089 WATER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487 711 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017 2 Park Square, Milton Park Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK an informa business www.crcpress.com Underground Aqueducts Handbook Edited by Andreas N. Angelakis • Eustathios Chiotis Saeid Eslamian • Herbert Weingartner Edited by Andreas N. Angelakis • Eustathios Chiotis Saeid Eslamian • Herbert Weingartner Underground Aqueducts Handbook Angelakis • Chiotis • Eslamian • Weingartner Underground Aqueducts Handbook “Underground Aqueducts Handbook offers the irst synthesis on aqueducts, including those conveying water and those tapping groundwater. This is the most comprehensive review of aqueduct technology as it concerns most continents and most periods, from prehistory to the present day, thanks to a multidisciplinary approach. It underlines the necessity to preserve and reuse, or redevelop, such sustainable technologies in the global context of aridiication and increasing need for water supply.” — Julien Charbonnier, Laboratory ArScAn, Nanterre, France “…the material is well documented and convincing. Any specialist and many common readers should be interested to have this book on their bookshelf.” — T.P. Tassios, National Technical University of Athens, Greece In ancient times, urban development required that water be transported from distant springs to centralized locations, and this practice over time further advanced the evolution of increasingly complex aqueducts.Their design and construction required knowledge of mathematics, tunneling, geomechanics, hydraulic principles, and more. These technologies are the underpinning of modern achievements in water supply engineering and water management practices. Written by leading experts from around the world, Underground Aqueducts Hand- book presents the major engineering achievements in underground aqueducts throughout history. It examines the technological developments, hydraulic fea- tures, and management practices related to the underground aqueduct technolo- gies worldwide, and presents case studies of aqueducts from nearly 30 different countries. This interdisciplinary work includes insight into the relevant engineering, hydrology, environmental sciences, and geosciences, as well as the archaeology and history of each example. It provides valuable insights into water technologies and management with respect to durability, adaptability to the environment, and sustainability, and compares the technological developments from several regions over several periods in time. Paradigms of these technologies and practices (not widely known among engineers) have practical application to modern-day water engineering, and help address the issues of sustainability, cost-effectiveness, and decentralization. The book emphasizes that the future trends of underground aqueducts should consider the possibility and practicality of integrating older, proven technologies into today’s infrastructure.