Evolution of urban drainage : from cloaca maxima to environmental sustainability / Jiri Marsalek. : En13-5/05-190E-PDF
"Drainage of urban settlements has been practiced for more than five thousand years, but the recognition and understanding of drainage impacts on the environment and the need for mitigation of such impacts has emerged fairly recently, during the last 40-50 years. Urban drainage was first built to improve living conditions in urban settlements by preventing water ponding and draining marshes for new development"--Introduction, page 1.
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| Ministère/Organisme | Canada. Environment Canada. Canada Centre for Inland Waters. National Water Research Institute (Canada) |
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| Titre | Evolution of urban drainage : from cloaca maxima to environmental sustainability / Jiri Marsalek. |
| Variante du titre | From cloaca maxima to environmental sustainability |
| Titre de la série | NWRI contribution ; 05-190 |
| Type de publication | Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal |
| Langue | [Anglais] |
| Format | Électronique |
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| Note(s) | Title from cover. Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada]. Includes bibliographical references. Includes abstract and summary in English and French. |
| Information sur la publication | Burlington, Ontario, Canada : National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, [2005] |
| Auteur / Contributeur | Marsalek, J., author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (18 pages) : maps, graphs. |
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| Descripteurs | Urban development Drainage Environmental management |