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Water tunnel
A water tunnel is an excavated conduit carrying water for supply or hydropower, built by drilling and blasting, tunnel boring machines, shields, or hydraulic hammers.
Water-sensitive urban design
Water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) is an urban planning approach integrating the whole urban water cycle into design, so stormwater is infiltrated and used near where it falls.
Waterborne diseases
Waterborne diseases are illnesses caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites spread through drinking or recreational water, including cholera, typhoid, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium; John Snow's 1854 Broad Street pump investigation founded their study.
Waterford Flight
The Waterford Flight is a set of five consecutive high-lift locks, numbered E2 through E6, on the Erie Canal at Waterford, New York, raising vessels 169 feet.
Waterloo & City line
The Waterloo & City line, nicknamed the Drain, is the shortest London Underground line, running between Waterloo and Bank since 1898 with no intermediate stops.
Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in central London, built 1939 to 1945 and nicknamed the Ladies' Bridge for its wartime women workers.
Waterway
A waterway is a river, canal, lake, or other stretch of water suitable for navigation by boats or ships, including navigable rivers, lakes, canals, and estuaries.
Wave equation analysis of pile driving
Wave equation analysis of pile driving is a computer-based method modeling stress-wave propagation through hammer, cushions, pile, and soil to predict driving stresses, blow counts, and pile bearing capacity.
Weir
A weir, also called a low head dam, is a barrier across a river that lets water flow over its top and raises the upstream water level.
Welland Canal
The Welland Canal is a ship canal in southern Ontario connecting Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, letting vessels bypass the roughly 99-meter elevation drop between the lakes.
Wessex Water
Wessex Water is a privately owned water and sewerage company serving about three million customers in South West England, owned since 2002 by Malaysia's YTL Corporation.
West Gate Bridge
The West Gate Bridge is a cable-stayed steel bridge spanning the Yarra River in Melbourne, built 1968 to 1978 to link the city with its western suburbs.
West India Docks
The West India Docks, opened in 1802 on the Isle of Dogs in east London, were London's first commercial wet docks, built to trade in Caribbean sugar and rum.
West Montrose Covered Bridge
The West Montrose Covered Bridge, known locally as the Kissing Bridge, is a covered wooden bridge built in 1881 over the Grand River in Ontario.
Western Corridor Recycled Water Project
The Western Corridor Recycled Water Project is a water recycling scheme in South East Queensland, Australia, treating Brisbane's and Ipswich's wastewater and supplying purified water chiefly to power stations.
Western Scheldt Tunnel
The Western Scheldt Tunnel (Dutch: Westerscheldetunnel) is a 6.6-kilometer bored road tunnel in the Netherlands, opened in 2003, carrying the N62 under the Western Scheldt estuary between Zuid-Beveland and Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.
Western Treatment Plant
The Western Treatment Plant (Werribee Sewage Farm) is Melbourne Water's lagoon-based sewage treatment plant at Werribee, Victoria, treating about half of Melbourne's sewage on 10,500 hectares, energy self-sufficient on biogas, and part of a Ramsar wetland with over 300 bird species.
Westminster Bridge
Westminster Bridge is a road and foot bridge over the River Thames in central London, linking Westminster with Lambeth; the current bridge opened in 1862.
Westtown Township, Pennsylvania
Westtown Township, Pennsylvania, is a township in Chester County in Philadelphia's western suburbs, established in 1685 and home to 11,154 people at the 2020 census.
Wharf
A wharf is a structure on a harbor shore or river or canal bank where ships moor to load and unload cargo, typically a fixed platform on pilings.
White Sea–Baltic Canal (Беломорско-Балтийский канал)
The White Sea–Baltic Canal, known as the Stalin Canal until 1961, is a 227 km canal in Karelia, Russia, built by Gulag prisoners in 1931–1933.
Whites Bridge
Whites Bridge, alternatively White's Bridge, is a Brown truss covered bridge over the Flat River near Smyrna, Michigan, built in 1869 and destroyed by arson in 2013.
Wieringermeer
The Wieringermeer is a polder in the Dutch province of North Holland, reclaimed from the Zuiderzee between 1927 and 1930 as the first large polder of the Zuiderzee Works.
Wignacourt Aqueduct
The Wignacourt Aqueduct is a 17th-century aqueduct in Malta, built by the Order of Saint John between 1610 and 1615 to carry water to Valletta.
William A. Clevenger
William Albert Clevenger (1919–2009) was an American geotechnical engineer who consulted on about 500 dam projects worldwide, coauthored the 1963 textbook Earth and Earth-Rock Dams, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990.
William E. Leonhard
William E. Leonhard (1914–2008) was an American civil engineer and construction executive who retired as an Air Force brigadier general in 1964, then led Parsons Corp. for 24 years.
William H. Hansmire
William H. Hansmire is an American tunnel engineer who spent about five decades at Parsons Brinckerhoff and WSP and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002.
William Mulholland
William Mulholland was an Irish-born, self-taught hydraulic engineer who led Los Angeles's water system from 1886 to 1928 and built the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct from the Owens Valley, completed in 1913.
William Thomas Holmes
William Thomas Holmes, known as Bill Holmes, is an American structural engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 for seismic safety work.
Williamsburg Bridge
The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge across the East River connecting Manhattan's Lower East Side with Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Opened in 1903, its 1,600-foot main span was then the world's longest.