»Let them Fetch Water as they Used to, with Tubs or Carts«
A history of the water supply in Ribniška dolina
Keywords:
Ribnica, historical geography, water history, water supply, waterworks, Ribnica ValleyAbstract
The article describes the interaction between the inhabitants of the valley of Ribniška dolina and its water resources. It presents water supply development stages in the transitional karst area of the valley of Ribniška dolina after 1850, with an emphasis on the period at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The examined archival materials offer insight into the course of construction of the water supply system, from the individual rainwater tanks and wells, the embryonic market town (Ribnica) and village waterworks (Kot - Jurjevica - Breže, Lipovšica - Zapotok - Vinice - Sušje - Slatnik), to the modern regional waterworks at Kočevje – Ribnica – Sodražica.
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