Hydrologie

1942 · rif. 62235 — Washington D.C.: n.p. ca. 1942. 4to. 2 147 1 leaves typescript mimeograph on onion-skin paper. With 34 copy photos and silver print run-off paper diagrams folding charts from the original all either mounted or bound within the report. Contemporary black Accopress split-pin slide binder rounded corners creasing to first few leaves of onion skin paper minor rusting to the slide Acco fastener still VG- copy. First edition thus of this English translation of Pontecorvo’s 1937 original “Il Problema dell’acqua” on the scarcity of Water the ongoing efforts to increase supplies of the vital resource in North Africa especially to advance economic and military development. Prepared after the Italian invasion of North Africa prior to World War II when in the aftermath of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War Mussolini’s government controlled Libya and Italian Somaliland Eritrea and the occupied Ethiopian Empire were merged into Italian East Africa. The study focuses on ancient aquifers precipitation methods of discovering untapped water geophysical characteristics of North Africa and inally developing wells cisterns aqueducts and tapping atmospheric water with wind traps. This translation prepared during World War II possibly for reference use by US Army Corps of Engineers and construction battalion units during the Allied North Africa Campaigns from 1940-May 1943. No similar copies in Worldcat. n.p., unknown