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History of Hydrology Wiki

Why do we need a History of Hydrology Wiki?

There is no readily available source of information about the history of hydrology and hydrologists. The book by Asit K Biswas on the History of Hydrology (North-Holland, 1971) provides a summary of developments up to 1900 and there is some overlap with the three remarkable books on Hydraulicians of Europe and the USA from 1800 – 2000 produced by Willi Hager at ETH and the Hunter Rouse and Simon Ince book on the History of Hydraulics (Iowa Institue of Hydraulic Research, 1957). There have also been some efforts to put some of the history of hydrology together, such as the AGU History of Geophysics Volume 3 of 1987 edited by Edward Landa and Simon Ince. But the material is dispersed and not necessarily readily available

All hydrologists are welcome to contribute information about the development of the subject (and its overlaps with hydraulics, water resource engineering, geomorphology, ecohydrology, sociohydrology, hydrometeorology, water quality, etc).

This can be done either by writing a new article or contributing to an existing article using the Wiki editing functions, once you have a login for the site. Entries should be in English but we encourage contributions that reflect the development of hydrology in all countries of the world, particularly early history that did not make it into the Biswas book.


Areas of coverage

The site will start by concentrating on 3 component areas

1. Biographies of hydrologists

2. The history of institutions

3. Hydrological Textbooks


Creating a new article

To write an article on a new topic (so far not included in the wiki), type the title of the article in the box below and click "Create article". You must confirm your e-mail address before creating or editing pages for the first time. Please set and validate your e-mail address through your user preferences.

Templates for articles on in each area can be found here: Templates.




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