Brief synthesisThe Water Management System of Augsburg is a sustainable system of water management that evolved in successive phases through the City’s application of innovative hydraulic engineering, demonstrating an exemplary use of water resources over the course of more than seven centuries. Criterion (ii): The Water Management System of Augsburg has generated significant technological innovations, which sustained Augsburg’s leading position as a pioneer in hydraulic engineering. IntegrityThe integrity of the Water Management System of Augsburg is based on the functional unity and the wholeness of an integrated group of 22 mutually dependent elements, expressed in six typologies of structures that are a testimony to the city’s long and continuous management of its water system. AuthenticityThe Water Management System of Augsburg is an exceptional preserved structures that document the development of an urban water management system since medieval times. Management and protection requirementsAll 22 elements of the Water Management System of Augsburg have been included in the Bavarian heritage list.