Where has the water come from?

Tempelhoff, Johann; Hoag, Heather J.; Ertsen, Maurits W.; Arnold, Ellen F.; Bender, Matthew V.; Berry, Kate A.; Fort, Carol; Pietz, David A.; Musemwa, Muchaparara; Nakawo, Masayoshi; Ur, Jason; Dam, P.J.E.M. van; Melosi, Martin V.; Winiwarter, Verena; Wilkinson, T. J.

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“…The close relationship between water and human society has been important throughout the history of civilisations. Water usage issues like availability, management and competition have become increasingly relevant due to pressing environmental and resource concerns (Tempelhoff et al ., ; Hassan, ; Angelakis et al ., ). Sourcing water for early urban settlements dates back to at least the Bronze Age (2800–1100 bce ) and includes use of canals associated with rivers, rainwater‐harvesting systems, wells, aqueducts and underground cisterns (e.g.…”

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Coupling Hydrotoponymy and GIS Cartography: A Case Study of Hydrohistorical Issues in Urban Groundwater Systems, Porto, NW Portugal

Freitas

Afonso

Dévy-Vareta

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Geographical Research

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The aim of this multidisciplinary study is to retrospectively examine hydrohistorical issues, namely hydrogeographic, hydrotoponymical and hydrogeological features, in order to assess the evolution of the Porto urban groundwater system (NW Portugal). To achieve these goals, the comparison of two main field inventories in a large urban region was performed by (i) historical mapping of sources and groundwater data from scientific reports spanning the late 17th century to the early 20th; and (ii) hydrogeologic and hydrotoponymical field inventory performed under current conditions. These field inventories permitted the location of springs, dug wells, fountains, public washing places and underground water galleries, which collected groundwater to supply the population of Porto until the early 20th century. This study also allowed the development of a hydrotoponymical classification for urban areas and a field hydrotoponymical inventory data sheet. This research integrated several techniques based on historical hydrogeography, hydrogeology and urban geosciences. The results of the field inventories were combined into both a database and a Geographical Information System (GIS) platform. This unified methodology allowed a cross‐check and analysis of several levels of information, namely hydrotoponymy, hydroclimatology, hydrogeology, structural geology and geomorphology. This perspective led to an assessment of the evolution of the quality of water resources in large urban areas over time. In addition, the role of hydrotoponymical features is presented in order to support the hydrogeological conceptual model for large urbanised areas.

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Coupling Hydrotoponymy and GIS Cartography: A Case Study of Hydrohistorical Issues in Urban Groundwater Systems, Porto, NW Portugal

Freitas

Afonso

Dévy-Vareta

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Geographical Research

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“…Pérez Giménez 2003;Carranza Alcalde 2009) who expose the dynamics and tensions inherent in local customs. The relationship between human agency and the environment is one of the core themes underpinning the philosophy of this journal (Tempelhoff et al 2009) and this article asks questions about the role of the monastery in creating its estate and controlling its water resources and shows how irrigation practices became a structuring thread, not only in the landscape, but in the negotiation of social relations between individuals and neighbouring communities. The extent to which these negotiations were harmonious is a key question to which we shall return.…”

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Contest and co-operation: strategies for medieval and later irrigation along the upper Huecha valley, Aragón, north-east Spain

Gerrard

2011

Water Hist

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This case study from north-east Spain examines technologies of water capture, storage and distribution in the Middle Ages and later. Drawing on details from contemporary documents and archaeological fieldwork, the article then explores the allocation and administration of water rights and investigates the tensions brought about by new patterns of land ownership and Christian political administration after the early twelfth century, in particular following the foundation of a powerful Cistercian monastery which potentially introduced destabilising forces of change into the region. While irrigators continued to make routine decisions about the running of the hydraulic network, in other respects they were far from self-determining communities.

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“…The article drew attention to how ''the relationship between water and humanity has always been inextricably intertwined throughout history'' (Tempelhoff et al 2009, p. 1). As a result, work on water history has the potential to illuminate connections between physical and human worlds within specific temporal and spatial settings (Tempelhoff et al 2009). It is worth adding that as cultures and politics vary (spatially and historically), there are water histories-plural-rather than water history-singular-to be uncovered (Hamlin 2000).…”

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Indigenous water histories II: water histories and the cultural politics of water for contemporary Indigenous groups

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Where has the water come from?

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

Coupling Hydrotoponymy and GIS Cartography: A Case Study of Hydrohistorical Issues in Urban Groundwater Systems, Porto, NW Portugal

Coupling Hydrotoponymy and GIS Cartography: A Case Study of Hydrohistorical Issues in Urban Groundwater Systems, Porto, NW Portugal

Contest and co-operation: strategies for medieval and later irrigation along the upper Huecha valley, Aragón, north-east Spain

Indigenous water histories II: water histories and the cultural politics of water for contemporary Indigenous groups

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