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Cairo Citadel Aqueduct

The Cairo Citadel Aqueduct, known in Arabic as Magra al-Oyoun, is a fortified stone aqueduct built from 1312 under Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad to carry Nile water to the Citadel of Salah al-Din.

Caisson (engineering)

A caisson is a watertight hollow structure sunk into ground or a riverbed and filled with concrete to form a deep foundation, used for bridge piers and skyscrapers.

Caisson (lock gate)

A caisson gate is a large floating steel or concrete box used to close a dry dock or lock, flooded to sink it and pumped dry to float it away.

Caisson foundation

A caisson foundation, also known as a well foundation, is a deep foundation built inside a watertight enclosure sunk through water and weak soil to reach sound soil or rock.

Calamocha Roman bridge

Calamocha Roman bridge (Puente Romano de Calamocha): single-arch limestone bridge over the Jiloca River in Calamocha, Teruel, Aragon, Spain; Roman first phase with medieval alterations, on the Cástulo-Caesaraugusta road, Bien de Interés Cultural since 1981.

Calcium silicate hydrate

Calcium silicate hydrate (C–S–H) is the main hydration product of Portland cement, filling roughly 50% of hydrated paste volume and acting as the binding phase that gives concrete its strength.

Caldaccoli aqueduct

Caldaccoli aqueduct (Acquedotto romano di Caldaccoli), a 1st-century AD Roman aqueduct near Pisa, Italy, carrying water from the Pisan Mountains to the baths of Pisa; eight arches survive at San Giuliano Terme, name from Latin calidae aquae.

Caldecott Tunnel

The Caldecott Tunnel, also known as the Broadway Low Level Tunnel, is a four-bore highway tunnel carrying State Route 24 through the Berkeley Hills between Oakland and Orinda, opened in 1937.

Caledonian Canal

The Caledonian Canal is a 60-mile ship canal in Scotland linking Fort William and Inverness through the Great Glen. Designed by Thomas Telford, it opened in 1822.

CalFed Bay-Delta Program

The CALFED Bay-Delta Program was a joint state-federal program created in the mid-1990s to resolve water conflicts in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, the hub of California's water supply.

California Aqueduct

The California Aqueduct, formally the Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct, carries water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.

California Department of Water Resources

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is the state agency managing much of California's water supply and operating the State Water Project, the nation's largest state-built water conveyance program.

California State Water Project

The California State Water Project, also called the State Water Project, is a California system delivering Northern California water to 27 million people and 750,000 acres of farmland.

California Street

California Street, San Francisco east-west thoroughfare from the Embarcadero through Nob Hill to the Richmond District; home of the California Street cable car line and the Muni 1 California bus route, with recent SFMTA safety and transit projects.

California Water Service Group

California Water Service Group is a San Jose-based holding company providing water and wastewater service to more than two million people across five western states.

Callender-Hamilton bridge

The Callender-Hamilton bridge is a prefabricated modular steel truss bridge system patented in 1935 by the New Zealand engineer Archibald Milne Hamilton, predecessor of the Bailey bridge.

Camargo Corrêa

Camargo Corrêa is a Brazilian heavy construction company founded in 1939 and now the infrastructure arm of the Mover holding, known for hydroelectric, transport, and industrial works in Brazil and abroad.

Camelford water pollution incident

The Camelford water pollution incident, also called the Lowermoor incident, was the 1988 contamination of drinking water in North Cornwall with 20 tonnes of aluminum sulfate.

Camino Real de Panama and Camino de Cruces

The Camino Real de Panamá and Camino de Cruces were 16th-century Spanish colonial roads carrying silver across the Isthmus of Panama between its two oceans.

Camp Lejeune water contamination

The Camp Lejeune water contamination was the pollution of drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, with industrial solvents from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Canadian Dam Association

The Canadian Dam Association (Association canadienne des barrages) is a Canadian not-for-profit association for dam safety, formed in 1997 and publisher of the Dam Safety Guidelines used across Canada.

Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code

The Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CHBDC), published as CSA S6 by CSA Group, is Canada's national standard for design and evaluation of highway bridges, with a 2025 thirteenth edition.

Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE, Société canadienne de génie civil) is a not-for-profit learned society for civil engineers in Canada, chartered in 1887 and known for its conferences and heritage work.

Canal

A canal, or artificial river, is a man-made waterway built for ships, irrigation, or water supply; the Suez and Panama canals are the most famous examples.

Canal & River Trust

Canal & River Trust is a charity that has cared for about 2,000 miles of canals and rivers in England and Wales since 2012, when it took over British Waterways.

Canal company and authority engineers

The engineer to a canal company or authority was the officeholder formally responsible for a navigation's surveys, design, parliamentary promotion, construction, and, in a later phase, its care and maintenance.

Canal de Aragón y Cataluña

The Canal de Aragón y Cataluña is a major irrigation canal in northeastern Spain serving more than 100,000 hectares in Huesca and Lleida, inaugurated by Alfonso XIII in 1906.

Canal de Bourgogne

The Canal de Bourgogne is a 242 km canal in Burgundy, eastern France, linking the Saône at Saint-Jean-de-Losne to the Yonne, with 189 locks, opened in 1833.

Canal de Castilla

The Canal de Castilla is a 207-kilometer canal in the Spanish provinces of Palencia, Burgos, and Valladolid, built between 1753 and 1849 for navigation and irrigation.

Canal de Isabel II

Canal de Isabel II is the publicly owned water company managing the full water cycle for the Community of Madrid, founded by Royal Decree in 1851 to carry Lozoya River water to Madrid.