Elixir: a history of water and humankind

Canals, Furrows, and Rice Paddies.

The elixir of life ; Farmers and furrows ; "Whoever has a channel has a wife" ; Hohokam : "Something that is all gone" ; The power of the waters

Waters From Afar.

Landscapes of Enlil ; The lands of Enki ; "I caused a canal to be cut" ; The waters of Zeus ; Aquae Romae

Cisterns and Monsoons.

Waters that purify ; China's sorrow

Ancient American Hydrologists.

The water lily lords ; Triumphs of gravity

Gravity and Beyond.

The waters of Islam ; "Lifting power, more certain than that of a hundred men" ; Mastery?