"A Balkema book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Fernando Moreno García -- Preface / Enrique Cabrera & Francisco Arregui -- Water engineering and management through time. Learning from history / Enrique Cabrera & Francisco Arregui -- Water engineering and management in the early Bronze Age civilizations / Pierre Louis Viollet -- Water engineering and management in ancient Egypt / Larry Mays -- Water engineering and management in the classic civilizations / Henning Fahlbusch -- Water engineering and management in al-Andalus / José Roldan -- Hydraulic advances in the 19th and 20th centuries : from Navier over Prandtl into the future / Willi H. Hager -- Water, history and sustainability, a complex trinomial hard to harmonise in Mediterranean countries / Concepción Bru & Enrique Cabrera -- Water and agriculture. Present and future trends / Martín Sevilla Jiménez -- Water and the city in the 21st century. A panoramic vision / Steve Buchberger & Enrique Cabrera -- European water research : from past to future trends / Avelino González -- The interdisciplinary challenge in water policy : the case of "water governance" / J.E. Castro -- The future of water management : the case for long-range interconnections / M. Fanelli -- Water resources in developing countries : the Millennium Development Goals in the 21st century / C. Fernández-Jauregui -- Water challenges in the 21st century / Philip H. Burgi -- Conclusions / Enrique Hernández.