Y a-t-il un pays européen plus marqué par sa relation à l’eau que les Pays Bas ? C’est sans doute la raison pour laquelle les techniques hydrauliques s’y sont développées en premier. Au début du 17e siècle, dans le nord de la Hollande, on commença à retirer des terres à l’eau, motivé par deux objectifs : gagner de nouvelles terres de culture et mieux se protéger des inondations. La petite commune de Beemster près d’Amsterdam en est un bon exemple.

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I	Argenta \| Ecomuseum of Argenta
	via Cadinale-Luc \| Argenta \| Italy
	The ecomuseum at Argenta is a federation of several museums and nature reserves that interprets and provides access to some of the lands reclaimed in the delta of the River Po in the early 20th centur... plus >>

D	Augsburg \| Watertowers close to Red Gate
	Rotes Tor 1 \| 86153 Augsburg \| Germany
	In the mid-nineteenth century the citizens of Augsburg had a better supply of water than those of most European cities, and some of the means of delivering that supply dated from the fifteenth and six... plus >>

D	Berlin \| Friedrichshagen Waterworks
	Müggelseedamm 301-307 \| 12587 Berlin \| Germany
	The Friedrichshagen Waterworks in Berlin was considered the largest and most modern of its kind in Europe when it was completed in 1888. Its various buildings are dispersed in a park-like setting on t... plus >>

GB	Brentford \| Kew Bridge Steam Museum
	Green Dragon Lane \| TW8 0EN Brentford \| Great Britain
	Cette machine à vapeur est tellement gigantesque qu’on peut passer debout sous le bras de son balancier alors qu’elle est en plein service avec force bruits. A l’origine, elle devait pomper l�... plus >>

GB	Cambridge \| Musée technologique de Cambridge
	The Old Pumping StationCheddars Lane \| CB5 8LD Cambridge \| Great Britain
	Alongside the well-known Cambridge of dreamy medieval colleges and spires, lies the first pumping station in the world powered by re-processed household waste. Before the pumping station was built in ... plus >>

GB	Downham Market, Norfolk \| Denver Sluice
	Denver \| Downham Market, Norfolk \| Great Britain
	Denver Sluice was designed originally in 1651 to bar tidal water from the low fen areas and to improve navigation. Denver lock is the main navigation structure linking the south Level River system... plus >>

GR	Edessa \| Open air water museum
	Parko Katarakton \| 58200 Edessa \| Greece
	Edessa,near to Mount Pella in central Macedonia in the northern part of Greece, is built around the cascading waters of the stream called Edhessaios Potomos, from which power has been drawn for many f... plus >>

GB	Ely, Cambridgeshire \| Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum
	Main StreetPrickwillow \| CB7 4UN Ely, Cambridgeshire \| Great Britain
	Tucked inside this tiny village, almost lost in the immense fenland landscape, is a fascinating industrial story. Prickwillow is a former diesel pumping station built to drain the fens. Man`s stru... plus >>

D	Engelskirchen \| Musée rhénan filature Ermen & Engels
	Engels-Platz \| 51766 Engelskirchen \| Germany

NL	Haarlemmermeer \| Musée De Cruquius
	Cruquiusdijk 27 \| 2142 ER Haarlemmermeer \| Netherlands
	Le roi des Pays-Bas Guillaume 1er avait le choix entre 240 moulins à vent et trois centrales aspirantes à vapeur. Il fallait faire vite : chaque année de violentes tempêtes rongeaient les rives de... plus >>

D	Heimbach \| The Eifel water information centre in Heimbach
	Karl-H.-Krischer-Platz 1 \| 52396 Heimbach \| Germany
	It bubbles, roars and sprays. Visitors to the Eifel Water Information Centre (WIZE) come up against it, even before they have entered the building. Once inside a system of pipes lead guests through th... plus >>

FIN	Helsinki \| Museum of Technology
	Viikintie 1 \| 00560 Helsinki \| Finland
	Finland’s museum of technology, founded in 1969 and opened in 1975, occupies the premises built in the 1870s for the City of Helsinki Water Board, which are magnificently situated on the island call... plus >>

GB	Hereford \| The Waterworks Museum Hereford
	Broomy Hill \| WR4 0LQ Hereford \| Great Britain
	Nowadays we take the purity of tap water for granted. Yet less than 150 years ago this was the exception rather than the rule, and polluted water supplies were often the cause of disease. Life expect... plus >>

B	Jalhay \| Gileppe dam
	Route de la Gileppe 55A \| 4845 Jalhay \| Belgium
	The Gileppe dam at the confluence of the rivers Vesdre (Weser) and Getz was built in 1867-76 to supply drinking water to Eupen, parts of the Liege region and Verviers, where the woollen industry neede... plus >>

D	Kochel am See \| Walchensee power station
	Altjoch 21 \| 82431 Kochel am See \| Germany
	There is a 200 m difference in height between the Kochelsee and Walchensee lakes in the Bavarian Alps that was first exploited for the construction of a hydro-electric plant in 1904. From 1918 Oskar v... plus >>