Article ID: CBB694387604

Coordinating the Local: Building Water Regimes in the Ruhr and Louisiana (2012)

unapi

States along the Rhine and Mississippi Rivers built themselves through water. The Rhine River Commission's member states oversaw work on their segments of the Rhine, and the Ruhr region developed watershed agencies. By contrast, the Mississippi River became a national issue, with Louisiana and New Orleans looking to Congress and the Army Corps of Engineers to resolve many problems. Prussian officials gained reputations as centralising authoritarians by coordinating multi—level development and attending to local natural, social and political variations. This empirical orientation is clearly seen in the Ruhr region's current watershed agencies, created before World War I. By seeking votes and Congressional support to resolve water problems, politicians in Louisiana helped create institutional arrangements that have diverted attention from local variations and helped fashion an image of a weak, invisible, even muddled, federal system. This essay stresses local and regional development of infrastructure and historical perspectives toward the topic.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB694387604/

Similar Citations

Article Colten, Craig E.; (2002)
Reintroducing Nature to the City: Wetlands in New Orleans (/isis/citation/CBB000200424/)

Article Fandrich, Ina J.; (2005)
The Birth of New Orleans' Voodoo Queen: A Long-Held Mystery Resolved (/isis/citation/CBB000660335/)

Book Mauch, Christof; Zeller, Thomas; (2008)
Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America (/isis/citation/CBB000850378/)

Book Melosi, Martin V.; (2011)
Precious Commodity: Providing Water for America's Cities (/isis/citation/CBB001212518/)

Article Richard Hirsh; (2013)
Fifteen Years Later: Whither Restructuring in the American Electric Utility System? (/isis/citation/CBB706689708/)

Book Kelman, Ari; (2003)
A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans (/isis/citation/CBB000500895/)

Article Reynolds, Terry S.; (1981)
The McNeil Street Pumping Station and the water supply of Shreveport, Louisiana (/isis/citation/CBB001181717/)

Article Davis, John Dean; (2018)
Levees, Slavery, and Maintenance (/isis/citation/CBB965317034/)

Article Joe Weber; (2018)
The transition from folk to engineered roads in the Mojave Desert (/isis/citation/CBB565903894/)

Article Harper, Christine Froechtenigt; (2004)
The Water Wizard: John F. Wixford and the Purification of the St. Louis Water Supply in 1904 (/isis/citation/CBB000660351/)

Book Christopher F. Jones; (2014)
Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (/isis/citation/CBB824368541/)

Article Christian, John T.; (Spring 2007)
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (/isis/citation/CBB975906457/)

Book Dawn E. Duensing; (2015)
Hawai‘i’s Scenic Roads: Paving the Way for Tourism in the Islands (/isis/citation/CBB392728546/)

Article Back, W.; Landa, E. R.; Meeks, L.; (1995)
Bottled water, spas, and early years of water chemistry (/isis/citation/CBB001181501/)

Authors & Contributors
Reynolds, Terry S.
Davis, John Dean
Spackman, Christy C. W.
Christian, John T.
Zachary Callen
Dawn E. Duensing
Concepts
Infrastructure
Water supply
Technology and politics
Water purification
Sewerage
Roads and highways
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
New Orleans (Louisiana, U.S.)
Louisiana (U.S.)
Mississippi River (North America)
Seine River (France)
Nile River
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment