The summer drought should have imposed irrigation as an urgent necessity to all the mediterranean civilisations. In fact, the truth is that if water is needed and sought after by all of them, each of them uses it in a different way. Mesopotamia and Egypt use the water of their main rivers, that of the Nile to flood the fields, that of the Tigris and Euphrates by derivation into canals. neither Rome nor Greece seem to have used irrigation much. However water flows profusely in aqueducs, public fountains, thermae, pleasure gardens. The Arabs spread the use of fountains and complicate techniques of irrigation in Andalusia. In Provence «the Craponne Canal» in the nineteenth century was first meant to run water-mills and to be used for n...
Abstract. — The author begins with a brief review of the variability that shows up in the industrial...
The three irrigated regions, the Haouz of Marrakech, the oasis of Ispahan, end the huertas of South ...
National audienceIn Europe, 25% of freshwater withdrawals are consumed by agriculture and may even r...
International audienceThe agricultural sector is often considered as the biggest water consumer and ...
Dans le sud de la péninsule Arabique, l'irrigation est pratiquée depuis le IVe millénaire avant J. -...
The author attempts to show, first of all, how our approaches to the problem of water in the ancient...
Water management has always been the key of economic development in Provence. This region has always...
Facing economic and environmental challenges, irrigation keeps developing worldwide and in France wh...
French Provence has an irregular rainfall and a large need of water, both for urban use and for the ...
The State and Peasants in Modern Egypt's Hydraulic Systems Until the Aswan dam's reservoir was put...
Le sel, la terre, l'eau et la pratique contemporaine de l'irrigation. Approche historique des aménag...
Irrigation and water resources management in France Development of individual irrigation in areas t...
La recherche de l’eau a été une nécessité, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. Au Proche-Orient, l...
J i$J^I dULII ^L-î cJl£ jlkjwl yZ\j*j i*-lj 'is-Sjj ^IIn the semi-arid environment of the valleys of...
For thousands of years Mediterranean agriculture has had to deal with the dual constraints of drough...
Abstract. — The author begins with a brief review of the variability that shows up in the industrial...
The three irrigated regions, the Haouz of Marrakech, the oasis of Ispahan, end the huertas of South ...
National audienceIn Europe, 25% of freshwater withdrawals are consumed by agriculture and may even r...
International audienceThe agricultural sector is often considered as the biggest water consumer and ...
Dans le sud de la péninsule Arabique, l'irrigation est pratiquée depuis le IVe millénaire avant J. -...
The author attempts to show, first of all, how our approaches to the problem of water in the ancient...
Water management has always been the key of economic development in Provence. This region has always...
Facing economic and environmental challenges, irrigation keeps developing worldwide and in France wh...
French Provence has an irregular rainfall and a large need of water, both for urban use and for the ...
The State and Peasants in Modern Egypt's Hydraulic Systems Until the Aswan dam's reservoir was put...
Le sel, la terre, l'eau et la pratique contemporaine de l'irrigation. Approche historique des aménag...
Irrigation and water resources management in France Development of individual irrigation in areas t...
La recherche de l’eau a été une nécessité, depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours. Au Proche-Orient, l...
J i$J^I dULII ^L-î cJl£ jlkjwl yZ\j*j i*-lj 'is-Sjj ^IIn the semi-arid environment of the valleys of...
For thousands of years Mediterranean agriculture has had to deal with the dual constraints of drough...
Abstract. — The author begins with a brief review of the variability that shows up in the industrial...
The three irrigated regions, the Haouz of Marrakech, the oasis of Ispahan, end the huertas of South ...
National audienceIn Europe, 25% of freshwater withdrawals are consumed by agriculture and may even r...