To Dig a Well (in Siberia) : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2017, no. 13: To Dig a Well (in Siberia)
In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time. Owing to the presence of permafrost, Yakutsk had survived on limited water resources for centuries. Frozen earth cast doubt on the availability of groundwater and made exploratory...
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ftdatacite:10.5282/rcc/7896 2023-05-15T17:56:35+02:00 To Dig a Well (in Siberia) : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2017, no. 13: To Dig a Well (in Siberia) Chu, Pey-Yi 2017 text/html https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7896 http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7896/ en eng Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany This refers only to the text and does not include any image rights. Please click on an image to view its individual rights status. CC BY 4.0 2017 Pey-Yi Chu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY population infrastructure resources diseases engineering permafrost public health rivers sanitation science geology water water pollution Text article-journal Journal Article ScholarlyArticle 2017 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/7896 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time. Owing to the presence of permafrost, Yakutsk had survived on limited water resources for centuries. Frozen earth cast doubt on the availability of groundwater and made exploratory digging difficult. The absence of wells had deleterious consequences for the health of the settled population. In the twentieth century, historical circumstances arose that redoubled efforts to develop sanitation infrastructure in Yakutsk. Establishing a reliable source of clean water in Yakutsk was a process of trial and error, with implications for environmental adaptation today. Text permafrost Yakutsk Siberia DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Yakutsk |
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In 1947, inhabitants of Yakutsk gained access to potable groundwater from below the permafrost layer for the first time. Owing to the presence of permafrost, Yakutsk had survived on limited water resources for centuries. Frozen earth cast doubt on the availability of groundwater and made exploratory digging difficult. The absence of wells had deleterious consequences for the health of the settled population. In the twentieth century, historical circumstances arose that redoubled efforts to develop sanitation infrastructure in Yakutsk. Establishing a reliable source of clean water in Yakutsk was a process of trial and error, with implications for environmental adaptation today. |
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To Dig a Well (in Siberia) : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2017, no. 13: To Dig a Well (in Siberia) |
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