Water history organizations

Several people have asked me recently whether there are international organizations like the Canadian Water History Project.  I can recommend two.  First, the International Water History Association has operated for several years and sponsors annual or bi-annual meetings.  It is a big tent organization bringing together engineers, historians, geographers and biologists, amongst others.  I have attended two meetings of the association, one in Bergen, Norway in 2001, and another in Paris, hosted by UNESCO in 2005.  The association will be meeting as part of the World Congress of Environmental History in Copenhagen this August.  Another link to international scholars is provided by the H-Water, an email network that provides bulletins and news about water history.  If there are other national water history associations that I don’t know about, please contact me.

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