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From the beginning of time water has been essential for survival. Thus, it is not surprising that evidence of the earliest civilizations has been found along the banks of rivers: the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, the Nile in Egypt, the Indus in India, the Huang-He (Yellow River) in China and near large springs. The Chinese classified their emperors as being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ depending on whether they maintained their waterworks carefully or whether they allowed them to fall into disrepair. The earliest hydrologic concepts evolved by man concerning springs and the accepted description of the hydrologic cycle began to evolve during the Hellenic Civilization (600 B.C.).
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LaMoreaux, P.E. (2001). Historical Development. In: LaMoreaux, P.E., Tanner, J.T. (eds) Springs and Bottled Waters of the World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56414-7_2
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