21 septembre 2021
Max Weber Stiftung, « The Fijeh Water Project and the Cholera Epidemic in 1903 Damascus », Mish ma32ool, ID : 10670/1.22cl8y
Benan Grams On June 30th, 1903 Sultan Abdulhamid II approved a project to bring potable water to Damascus from the Ein el-Fijeh spring.1 The project was presented to the central government by Nazim Pasha, the governor of Syria, during a persistent cholera epidemic that afflicted Damascus throughout that year. Fresh water from the Fijeh spring, brought to the city in cast-iron pipes, was intended to replace the increasingly contaminated water of the Barada River that had for centuries supplied...