Publication detail

Past, Present and Future of the Laboratory of Water Management Research in Brno

PAŘÍLKOVÁ, J. ZACHOVAL, Z.

Original Title

Past, Present and Future of the Laboratory of Water Management Research in Brno

Type

book chapter

Language

English

Original Abstract

The abstract is published online only. If you did not include a short abstract for the online version when you submitted the manuscript, the first paragraph or the first 10 lines of the chapter will be displayed here. If possible, please provide us with an informative abstract. One ancient wisdom says, ‘He who does not know the past cannot create the future’. This is not only true for the peoples and countries, but also for every human activity and society. In the course of time, human society has often passed through booms and declines. However, the necessity for life was always the need for freshwater. Nowadays, when extremely dry months alternate with local torrential rainfall, water management is frequent, and construction of laboratories of water management was shown as a very wise act. The Faculty of Civil Engineering in Brno, Czech Republic, has its history reaching far back into the nineteenth century. Indisputably, the elaboration of the concept and the factual establishment of water laboratories is worldwide ground-breaking. Founder of the water laboratories in Brno is Prof. Ing. Antonín Smrček, Dr. h. c. To defend the first laboratories in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he used both his literary talent and knowledge of Czech and German languages in speeches at international congresses on dams and navigation. Prof. Smrček was striving to contribute as effectively as possible to the development of his school and the Czech element in Moravia. Therefore, he became elected a deputy of the Moravian Land Diet (Parliament Assembly) and later also of the Vienna Reich Council where he collaborated, amongst others, with T. G. Masaryk. He stood up efficiently for the further extension of the Brno Technical College with mechanical, chemical, electrical, and cultural branches and carried through the chemical building on Žižkova Street. When appraising the life and work of Prof. Smrček, the awareness that our predecessors paid for what we are is pushing into our minds over and over again. With humility and pride, we invite you to take a short trip through the past and present of the water research laboratories in Brno. Let us be grateful.

Keywords

Laboratory of Water Management Research, Institute of Water Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering Brno university of Technology, Research

Authors

PAŘÍLKOVÁ, J.; ZACHOVAL, Z.

Released

21. 6. 2019

Publisher

Springer International Publishing Switzerland

Location

Cham

ISBN

978-3-030-18362-2

Book

Assessment and Protection of Water Resources in the Czech Republic

Edition

Springer Water

Edition number

1

Pages from

11

Pages to

35

Pages count

25

URL

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030183622

BibTex

@inbook{BUT157736,
  author="Jana {Pařílková} and Zbyněk {Zachoval}",
  title="Past, Present and Future of the Laboratory of Water Management Research in Brno",
  booktitle="Assessment and Protection of Water Resources in the Czech Republic",
  year="2019",
  publisher="Springer International Publishing Switzerland",
  address="Cham",
  series="Springer Water",
  edition="1",
  pages="11--35",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-030-18363-9\{_}2",
  isbn="978-3-030-18362-2",
  url="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030183622"
}