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Colloque International OH 2 « Origines et Histoire de l’Hydrologie », Dijon, 9-11 mai 2001 International Symposium OH 2 ‘Origins and History of Hydrology’, Dijon, May, 9-11, 2001 UNESCO/IHP Meeting of the AD HOC WORKING GROUP ON THE HISTORY OF WATER AND CIVILIZATION UNESCO House, 21-23 August 2000 SUBJECT: Preparation of a UNESCO Book Series on the History of Water and Civilization Establishment of the International Water History Association (IWHA) PARTICIPANTS: Invited experts: Dr. Martin A. Reuss (Co-organizer), United States of America Prof. Richard Coopey, United Kingdom Prof. Dr Jacob J. de Vries, Netherlands Prof. James C. I. Dooge, Ireland Dr. Patricia E. Faasse, Netherlands Dr. Fekri A. Hassan, United Kingdom/Egypt Prof. Iwao Kobori, Japan Dr. Eva Jakobsson, Sweden Dr. Marty Melosi, United States of America Dr. Sarah L. O’Hara, United Kingdom Dr. Jerry Delli Priscoli, United States of America Prof. Patricia Sippel, United Kingdom Prof. Terje Tvedt, Norway UNESCO: Mr. Andras Szöllösi-Nagy, Secretary of the International Hydrological Programme Mr. Alexander Otte, Consultant MAIN RESULTS 1. The meeting was opened Monday, 21 August at 15.00h in Room XVI at UNESCO Headquarters. Dr. Reuss of the United States of America served as chair. The provisional agenda of the meeting and a discussion paper were distributed beforehand to the participants and are annexed as Annexes 1 to this report. The working group dealt first with the planned multi-volume book series on the History of Water and Civilization. From Tuesday afternoon on, the meeting discussed the establishment of the International Water History Association (IWHA). The final list of participants is attached as Annex 2. © Université de Bourgogne 1

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U N E S C O / I H P

Meeting of the AD HOC WORKING GROUP ON THE HISTORY OF WATER AND CIVILIZATION

UNESCO House, 21-23 August 2000 SUBJECT: Preparation of a UNESCO Book Series on the History of Water and

Civilization Establishment of the International Water History Association (IWHA)

PARTICIPANTS:

Invited experts: Dr. Martin A. Reuss (Co-organizer), United States of America Prof. Richard Coopey, United Kingdom Prof. Dr Jacob J. de Vries, Netherlands Prof. James C. I. Dooge, Ireland Dr. Patricia E. Faasse, Netherlands Dr. Fekri A. Hassan, United Kingdom/Egypt Prof. Iwao Kobori, Japan Dr. Eva Jakobsson, Sweden Dr. Marty Melosi, United States of America Dr. Sarah L. O’Hara, United Kingdom Dr. Jerry Delli Priscoli, United States of America Prof. Patricia Sippel, United Kingdom Prof. Terje Tvedt, Norway

UNESCO: Mr. Andras Szöllösi-Nagy, Secretary of the International Hydrological Programme

Mr. Alexander Otte, Consultant

MAIN RESULTS

1. The meeting was opened Monday, 21 August at 15.00h in Room XVI at UNESCO Headquarters. Dr. Reuss of the United States of America served as chair. The provisional agenda of the meeting and a discussion paper were distributed beforehand to the participants and are annexed as Annexes 1 to this report. The working group dealt first with the planned multi-volume book series on the History of Water and Civilization. From Tuesday afternoon on, the meeting discussed the establishment of the International Water History Association (IWHA). The final list of participants is attached as Annex 2.

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UNESCO BOOK SERIES ON THE HISTORY OF WATER AND CIVILIZATION 1. The opening discussion laid bare several issues of major concern respecting approach and scope of the planned publication. It was felt that the meeting should in particular: specify the type and designation of the publication (the term 'encyclopedia' hitherto used was found inappropriate); identify the target audience of the publication; formulate its guiding questions and main objectives; define its volume structure; and reflect on the organization of the project. 2. Concerning the type of publication, the term “book series” was recommended in this early stage of the project. However, during the meeting the term 'World Water History' emerged and is therefore used here. The working group underlined that regardless of the series’ final form it is aimed to serve as a benchmark reference work on water history, including cultural, social, political, environmental and scientific aspects. Thus, its content should be integrative, accessible, and of enduring value over time and for all world regions.

3. It was recommended that the target audience of the World Water History should be the educated public, in line with other scientific UNESCO publications. Besides scholars working on water issues, important target groups should be academics, students, stakeholders and persons involved in the agenda setting and decision making process. The latter group would include intergovernmental, governmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions. Furthermore, it was strongly recommended to make the publication's content available to primary education and the broad public through easily accessible literary, multimedia, television, and other appropriate adaptations.

4. The working group's discussion resulted in general agreement that the book series should focus on how humankind arrived to its present multifaceted relationship with water. The World Water History should provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and holistic explanation of water as a primordial driving force of historical development. Special attention should be given to the dynamics of changes and developments in the interrelation between humankind and water resources, how local forms of water use and management proliferated between cultures and regions and how this contributed to the rise and fall of societies and civilizations.

5. The working group concluded that the series should provide a basis for a deeper understanding of the functions and meanings of water throughout the world. It should thus help scientists and policymakers cope better with water problems and conflicts. By its interdisciplinary approach to water history the publication project aims to foster international research on the cultural, social, political, environmental and scientific aspects of water.

6. The volumes of the book series occupied much of the discussion time. A majority of the invited experts found that thematic segmentation would better meet the series’ objectives than chronological or regional structuring. The

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following preliminary volume titles and characteristics of the World Water History were proposed:

I. The Idea of Water II. Water and Human Settlement III. Water and Food IV. Water and Health V. Water, Science, and Technology VI. Water: Law, Politics, and Economy VII. Water and Humanity: Historical Overview

The first volume would introduce the problematic presenting different cognitive, cultural and scientific perspectives on water. This introductory volume would also point out conflicting views and gaps of knowledge and provoke new ideas about and novel approaches to water as a significant component of historical and future human development. Each of the volumes II-VI would take into account the spatial, chronological and topical dimension of its guiding theme to preserve the integrity of the historical development. The final volume would integrate and synthesize key issues and developments in water history in a coherent narrative summarizing the previous volumes. Each volume would be readable independently from the others and allow easy access to comprehensive scientific information through well-written essays and extensive bibliographies. In addition, the working group suggested an off-series volume compiling essays and other contributions of major intellectual, political, religious and artistic representatives from all over the world on water in history. An advertising presentation of the planned series was drafted to inform potential publishing partners and donors about background and characteristics of the publication project. This paper is attached as Annex 3. 7. The meeting did not specify a time frame for the project, but the time span for publication of the whole series was estimated to be a maximum of 10 years. In a first approach to the publication's agenda, it was recommended to start as soon as possible with the production of Volume I. The Volumes II-VI should then be launched parallel, while Volume VII should be produced last.

8. The working group elaborated a proposal for the editorial organization of the project (see graphic attached as Annex 4). An interdisciplinary Series Editorial Board representing the six UNESCO regions1, the Volume Editors and the Authors would compose this editorial structure under the coordination of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP). The Ad hoc Working Group, the IWHA, Volume Advisory and Peer Review Groups would serve as observers and advisers. Authors and editors should be eminent scientists from the fields of history, anthropology, geography, hydrology, theology, and other disciplines within the

1 Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Western Europe and

North America, Eastern Europe

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arts, humanities, social and natural sciences. The working group strongly emphasized the importance of recruiting authors from developing countries.

INTERNATIONAL WATER HISTORY ASSOCIATION (IWHA)

9. The second subject of the meeting was the official establishment of the IWHA. The association is expected to foster worldwide activities linked to the History of Water. The invited experts signed a declaration of intent to establish IWHA, to be launched at the International Conference on “The Role of Water in History and Development”, to be held at Bergen, Norway, 10 to 12 August 2001. There the first regular members could subscribe to the association. A copy of this declaration is in Annex 5. The working group briefly considered the necessary requirements needed to host the IWHA headquarters. Prof. Coopey, Dr. Reuss and Prof. Tvedt were designated as the working group's contact persons for the IWHA. Furthermore, Prof. Coopey instructed the working group on the management of the IWHA website2.

10. The group discussed the provisional by-laws of the IWHA, a draft of which was provided beforehand by Dr. Reuss. The discussion led to some amendments. The changed preamble was included in the declaration of intent. Dr. Reuss will now finalize the by-laws according to the meeting's comments and submit them to the working group before the Conference in Bergen mentioned above.

11. Furthermore, the meeting reflected on the role of the IWHA in the World Water History publication project. The working group found that the IWHA should play a major role in the preparation of the World Water History. The group underlined, among other possible functions of the IWHA, its advisory and observer role (see paragraph 8 and Annex 4), the constitution of a network of experts through its members and the possible creation of an international scholarly journal on water history. One of IWHA's tasks at an early stage of the publication project could be to organize an international conference of all authors and editors of the book series. NEXT STEPS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

12. The Ad hoc Working Group recommended setting the World Water History project on the working agenda of UNESCO. The Division of Water Sciences should set up as soon as possible a working plan for the first phase of the publication project. This plan should schedule the drafting of a project description; the search of possible partners within and outside the organization; building up a network of potential editors, authors and publishing partners; establishing of the Series Editorial Board and joint elaboration with project partners of the editorial organization of the World Water History. The invited experts were requested to communicate proposals for editors and authors to the Division of Water Sciences.

2 Address: www.iwha.net

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13. The Secretary of IHP offered the co-sponsorship of IHP for the International Conference on “The Role of Water in History and Development”, to be held at Bergen, Norway, 10 to 12 August 2001. Furthermore, it was proposed to include a plenary session on the World Water History in the programme of this conference.

14. The World Water History project and the foundation of the IWHA need now to be advertised in international scientific networks. The meeting recommended translation of the book series' presentation paper (see paragraph 6 and Annex 3) through UNESCO into French and other languages to allow its widespread circulation. Furthermore, the working group recommended advertising on the IHP and IWHA websites and at all related upcoming meetings and conferences.

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ANNEX 1

Meeting on Water and History

Paris, France 21-23 August 2000

WORKING AGENDA

21 August 1500-1800

Introductions Discussion on Water Encyclopedia (see discussion paper for key issues)

22 August 0930-1230

Discussion on Water Encyclopedia 1430-1600

Discussion on Water Encyclopedia 1600-1800

Status report on the IWHA

a. Future meetings – Terje Tvedt, Andras Szollosi-Nagy, Martin Reuss b. Website – Richard Coopey

Discussion on Formal Organization of IWHA (see discussion paper for key issues)

23 August 0930-1230

Discussion on Formal Organization of IWHA 1430-1800

Discussion on Formal Organization of IWHA

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ANNEX 3

Meeting of the

Ad hoc Working Group on the History of Water and Civilization UNESCO House, 21-23 August 2000

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Invited Experts Dr MARTIN A. REUSS (Co-organizer) Office of History HQ, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 7701 Telegraph Rd. Alexandria, Virginia 22315-3865 United States of America Tel.: +1 703 428 9560 Fax: +1 703 428 8172 E-mail : [email protected] Prof RICHARD COOPEY Department of History and Welsh History University of Wales Hugh Own Building Penglais Aberystwyth Ceredigion Sy23 3DY United Kingdom E-mail: [email protected] Prof Dr JACOB J. DE VRIES Department of Hydrology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1085 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel. (office): +31 20 444 -7276/ -7300

Tel. (home): +31 297 288 818 Fax: +31 20 646 2457 E-mail: [email protected] Prof JAMES C. I. DOOGE University College Dublin 2 Belgrave Road Monkstown County Dublin Ireland Tel.: +353 1 280 5515 Fax: +353 1 280 6583 E-mail: [email protected] (c/o Michael Bruen) Dr PATRICIA E. FAASSE Netherlands Institute of Applied Geoscience CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS: Adm. de Ruyterweg 271 1055 LV Amsterdam Tel.: + 31 20 6842890 Fax: + 31 20 6842987 E-mail: [email protected] Dr FEKRI A. HASSAN Institute of Archaeology University College London 31-34 Gordon Square SC1H 0PY London United Kingdom

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Tel.: +44 171 387 7050 Fax: +44 171 813 5241 E-mail: [email protected] Prof IWAO KOBORI United Nations University (Headquarters) 53-70 Jinguamae 5-chome Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150 Japan Tel.: +81 3 3499 2811 Tel. (direct): +81 3 5467 1257 Fax: +81 3 -3499 2828 or -3406 7347 E-mail: [email protected] Dr EVA JAKOBSSON Department of History of Science and Technology Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS: Sophus Lies gate 8 0264 Oslo, Norway. Tel./fax: +47 22438965 E-mail: [email protected] Dr MARTY MELOSI Department of History University of Houston Texas United States of America CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS: Department of English Odense University Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark Tel. (home): + 45 64 714423 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Dr SARAH L. O’HARA School of Geography University of Nottingham Nottingham Park

Nottingham NG7 2RD United Kingdom Tel.: +44 115 951 4381 Fax: +44 115 951 249 E-mail: Sarah.O’[email protected] Dr JERRY DELLI PRISCOLI Institute for Water Resources U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1714 North Bryan Str. Arlington, VA 22201 United States of America Tel.: +1 703 4286372 Fax: +1 703 5246920 E-mail: [email protected] Prof PATRICIA SIPPEL Toyo Eiwa Women’s University 32 Miho-Cho, Midori-Ku Yokohama-Shi Kanagawa, 226 Japan Tel. (office): +81 45 922 -511/ -7317 Fax (office): +81 45 9226642 Tel./fax (home): +81 422 33 3534 E-mail: [email protected] Prof TERJE TVEDT Centre for Development Studies University of Bergen Stromgt. 54 5007 Bergen Norway Tel.: +47 555 89300 Fax: +47 555 89892 E-mail: [email protected]

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UNESCO ANDRAS SZÖLLÖSI-NAGY Director Division of Water Sciences UNESCO 1, rue Miollis 75732 Paris cedex 15 Tel.: +33 1 4568 4001 Fax: +33 1 4568 5811 E-mail: [email protected] ALEXANDER OTTE Consultant Division of Water Sciences UNESCO 1, rue Miollis 75732 Paris cedex 15 Tel.: +33 1 4568 4005 Fax: +33 1 4568 5811 E-mail: [email protected]

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ANNEX 4

A PROPOSED MULTI-VOLUME BOOK SERIES

Over the next 20 years the world will need $180 billion yewater. Even this will only slightly improve the situation of taccess to water and those 50% without sanitation. Floods andmore people and create more damage then other forms of natgloomy arithmetic of water, growing pollution, potential conreform the water sector, massive requirements for capital, transfer of water across sectors, and other such issues now havhighest diplomatic and political levels.

The debate over dealing with these problems will have mucsurvival of civilizations and the quality of human’s life. Decisionbecome more explicitly linked to ethical choices. Most of the uses water that crosses national boundaries. At the same timupstream and downstream are interconnected. What people dwhat happens to the water. Powerful new global actors now mawhich affect water availability. However, water is perceived cultural lenses, and thus possible myopic solutions should be water is forcing us to rethink our notions of security,interdependency.

Because of the scale of the problem and our ability to rinformation about water, it is easy to believe that all this Humans have been dealing with these issues from the dawn ofis a rich history of how humans have interacted with waterinstitutions, and values have affected and continue to affect iand how water has made possible cooperation and not only cotradition, historians and others who study water history haabsent from the policy debates and academic conversationswater issues. History is one of the most valuable sources of insivision of the future. Without it, we may doom ourselves to miWe may even fall prey to excessive pessimism or unwarranted

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INTE RNATIONALHYDROLOG ICALPROGRAMME

arly investment in hose 33% without droughts now kill ural disasters. The flicts, the need to privatization, the e attention at the

h to say about the s about water will

world’s population e, what people do o on land affects

ke major decisions, through different avoided. In short,

dependency and

apidly disseminate is new. It is not. civilization. There , how technology, ts use and supply, nflict. Despite this ve been curiously over these great ght in shaping our stakes of the past. optimism and cut

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ourselves off from a rich source of models for approaching the future and contending with current critical issues.

UNESCO seeks to redress this deficiency by launching a comprehensive, authoritative series of volumes on world water history.

The purpose of the proposed series is to provide the public, academics, and policy makers with a comprehensive overview of the role of water during the course of human history. Eminent scholars from the fields of history, anthropology, geography, hydrology, theology, and other disciplines within the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences will contribute to editing and authoring essays and other entries in the proposed series of volumes.

The proposed history series will be global in perspective, trans-regional, and interdisciplinary in scope. Water will be considered in terms of its cultural, social, political, environmental and scientific aspects.

The first volume in the series will set the stage for a cross-cultural, historical understanding of the idea of water. Such ideas range from symbolic and religious views to scientific models and theories of the nature of water, water cycles, and water distribution. This volume will also emphasize the variety of approaches to water represented in current discourses with the aim of provoking new ideas and pathbreaking approaches in dealing with water as a significant component of human history. This volume and subsequent volumes will help to remedy present gaps in both academic and public understanding of the history of water and the development and management of water resources.

Five additional volumes will deal with the salient themes in understanding water in human history. Each volume will be organized in a historical sequence with reference to regions, related subjects, ideas, and individuals relevant to the broad theme of each volume.

The final volume in the series will serve as a capstone, integrating and synthesizing key issues and developments in water history in a coherent historical narrative. This volume can serve as a useful summation of the previous volumes. Interested readers can then refer to the fuller historical treatments of key themes in the other volumes in the series.

The proposed volumes in the series are as follows:

WORLD WATER HISTORY

I. THE IDEA OF WATER II. WATER AND HUMAN SETTLEMENT III. WATER AND FOOD IV. WATER AND HEALTH V. WATER, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY VI. WATER: LAW, POLITICS, AND ECONOMY VII. WATER AND HUMANITY: HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

This series is aimed to serve as a benchmark reference work on water history,

and as such can provide material for information in a variety of media and for

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several audiences. Adaptation of materials from this series might include books for school children or college students, television productions, public information packets, creative media activities, and policy briefs. The series also lends itself to Website adaptations and to CD-ROM uses.

The World Water History series is an exciting project, bringing together an impressive number of experts to produce valuable information, a variety of perspectives, new interpretations and ideas about water and its history to a wide-ranging audience. It transcends narrow perspectives to water issues that have focused on limited time periods and specific regions, and highlights instead the significance of water as a global issue, as well as the dynamic role of water in the history of human civilizations. The members of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Water in History, Paris, August 2000 Prof Richard Coopey, United Kingdom Prof Dr Jacob J. de Vries, Netherlands Prof James C. I. Dooge, Ireland Dr Patricia E. Faasse, Netherlands Dr Fekri A. Hassan, Egypt Prof Iwao Kobori, Japan Dr Eva Jakobsson, Sweden Dr Marty Melosi, United States of America Dr Sarah L. O’Hara, United Kingdom Dr Jerry Delli Priscoli, United States of America Dr Martin A. Reuss, United States of America Prof Patricia Sippel, United Kingdom Prof Terje Tvedt, Norway

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ANNEX 5

PRELIMINARY PROPOSAL FOR THE EDITORIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD WATER HISTORY

UNESCO - IHP (and other Units and partners)

Project coordination

IWHA

Among other activities: - hosts conference of authors and editors - advises / observes

Submit papers Volume Advisory Group

(optional)

Peer Review

Volume Authors (7 groups)

- submit proposals and final contributions to volume editors, possible volume advisory group and peer review

Advise and review

(Possibly observer status)

Volume Editors Collective volume editors

(no duplication with series editors) 7 Volume Editors

- operational - propose authors - appraise proposals of papers - appraise final contributions

Series Editorial Board - Final arbiter on content - Submits report to IHP

Series Editors, geographical parity, balance of disciplines - choose editors - approve authors - establish criteria - advise volume editors - provide expertise

Ad hoc Working Group

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ANNEX 6