Within the history of the development of the drainage network design guides we now take for granted, there have been some celebrated differences of opinion that still have an impact on our design codes and general approaches to public health.
Water availability impacts upon developmental issues--in particular housing demand--that may well be highly regionalized depending upon local economic prosperity and national profile.
In 1903, Joukowsky completed his assignment to investigate the water hammer problems encountered at the Imperial Water Works in St. Petersburg, Russia.
On July 9, 2003, John chaired the final meeting of the Water Regulations Advisory Committee of Defra--the U.K. Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
One of the issues that this column has addressed is the need for an interface between designers, practitioners, product manufacturers, code and governmental organizations, end users and research organizations.
History is full of examples of venerable committees who refused to accept new paradigms simply because those departures conflicted with their pre-conceptions of what was or could be possible.
The concept that it could actually rain more and that this should be the driver for a government invitation to universities to consider how research programs in the built environment should respond may appear somewhat bizarre.
September in the U.K. is the season for political and academic conferences, with highlights ranging from a speech by Bill Clinton to seminars on siphonic roof drainage and positive air pressure transients.