History of Water Management Case Study: Paris, France

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History of Water Management Case Study Paris,
France

• By Zufan Hagos

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Outline

• Introduction to Urban Hydrology
• Paris A Case Study
• Utilization of Paris Urban Space
• Implications of Reorganization
• Disease how it is spread through a citys
  infrastructure.

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Urban Hydrology

• Sources Finding enough water for ones
  population.
• Transportation Getting water where it needs to
  go.
• Growing needs altering methods for an
  ever-changing population.

• Sickness its manifestation through urban water
  works.
• Development why it is such a struggle.

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Paris

• Paris gets its water supply from the Seine and
  Marm Rivers, and has 63 underground springs.
• Exploding population made reconstruction imminent
  in the mid-1800s.
• The Haussmann Era A new way of thinking

The Seine River
Monets Water Lilies
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Paris

• Problems of Civil Neglect
• Implications of reconstruction.
• Societys change in water usage.
• Water over usage The evil associated with the
  freedom of clean water.

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London

• Cholera outbreak
• Dr. John Snow
• Disease that spurred change.
• New sewers technology for the future.