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Andreas N. Angelakis, Cees W. Passchier, Mohammad Valipour, Jens A. Krasilnikoff, Vasileios A. Tzanakakis, Abdelkader T. Ahmed, Alper Baba, Rohitashw Kumar, Esra Bilgic, Andrea G. Capodaglio and Nicholas Dercas
Water tunnels are one of the oldest hydro-technologies for extracting water resources and/or transmitting them through water distribution systems. In the past, human societies have used tunneling for various purposes, including development, as a measure ...
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Wei Cui, Wenxue Chen, Xiangpeng Mu, Qilin Xiong, Junqiang Li, Xiaochen Li, Zhe Liu and Zheqi Zhang
The roughness of the aqueduct in the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has increased due to factors such as the natural aging of concrete and biological attachment. To increase the flow capacity of the project, a roughness reduct...
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Jian Chen, Yangyang Tian, Huijie Zhang and Shanju Zhang
The form of the inlet section of aqueducts that connect the upstream channel and the downstream channel affects the flow pattern and head loss. In order to provide a reference for the design of the gradient section of water-transfer channels, a typical t...
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Andreas N. Angelakis, Andrea G. Capodaglio, Cees W. Passchier, Mohammad Valipour, Jens Krasilnikoff, Vasileios A. Tzanakakis, Gül Sürmelihindi, Alper Baba, Rohitashw Kumar, Benoît Haut, Maria G. Roubelakis, Zhang Min and Nicholas Dercas
Contaminated water and poor sanitation are associated with disease transmission. Absent, inadequate, or improperly managed water resources and sanitation systems expose individuals to preventable health risks. Billions of people lack access to these basi...
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Carlos Bautista-Capetillo, Georgia Aralú González Pérez, Hiram Badillo Almaraz and Aldo López Valle
Civilizations have been able to bloom because of the way they have been historically associated with water resources, especially in seeking strategies to ensure a supply to diverse sectors that require them. Thus, challenges in satisfying water demand ar...
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Jorge Bernabéu-Larena, Beatriz Cabau-Anchuelo, Pedro Plasencia-Lozano and Patricia Hernández-Lamas
The historic water supply to large cities constitutes a constructed heritage characterised by comprising a range of public structures?dams, canals, tanks, siphons and aqueducts?over a large geographical area. Within this international context, this paper...
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Claudio Alimonti, Valerio Baiocchi, Giorgia Bonanotte and Gábor Molnár
The aqueducts built by the ancient Romans are among the most impressive evidence of their engineering skills. The water inside the aqueducts was transported for kilometers, exploiting only the slight but constant differences in altitude throughout the ro...
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Zhihua Xiong, Chen Liu, Aijun Zhang, Houda Zhu and Jiawen Li
Due to the demands of booming Chinese cities and the increase in urban residents, the safety of aqueduct water transportation structures is noteworthy. A lot of old aqueducts were built in the 1990s and even earlier in the last century and may become vul...
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Albert De la Fuente, Vicente Alegre, Ana Blanco, Teresa Cavero and Roberto Quintilla
The Canal of Aragon and Catalonia (CAC) is 134 km long and irrigates 105,000 ha (131 irrigation user communities) and it is owned by the River Ebro?s Water Agency. The aqueducts are located between km 67 and 71 of the canal and were designed by the civil...
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Triantafyllia G. Nikolaou, Ioannis Christodoulakos, Panagiotis G. Piperidis and Andreas N. Angelakis
In this article, several archaeological, historical and other aspects of aqueducts in Crete, Greece, since the prehistoric times until today, are reviewed and presented. In Crete, since the Minoan era, various water management techniques that are found i...
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