The choices I have so far made have dealt with mining, UK water supply and Mount Kenya soils. This week’s is a more recent publication that has relevance to work we have carried out in North Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. It is a compendium of professionally written papers ably edited by Andreas N Angelakis, Eustathios Chiotis, Saeid Eslamian and Herbert Weingartner. Underground Aqueducts Handbook published by CRC Press in 2017 is now close to my desk and is regularly consulted. Not just for engineering, historic information or the illustrations which are sadly black and white but for ideas that come from the past and might be recreated or modified for the present time.
It covers Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Sub-Continent, Mexico and South America. The remarkable breadth and detail covered by this book is remarkable.
At a time of water insecurity around the globe this is a wonderful starting point to glean fresh ideas from the experts who have long ago died.