River Control in India by Ravi Baghel

Author:Ravi Baghel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Perhaps if the specificity of all these diverse hydrologic experiences had been recognised, then the misadventures in “correcting” the water balance would not have had such disastrous environmental consequences in many parts of the world. Unfortunately, even today hydrologic models continue to rely on concepts like annual stream flow and average rainfall, concepts which have little meaning in places where the “average” is the exception rather than the norm.

3.4.2 Universal Replicability

In addition to the perceived placelessness of origins, another related assumption implicit in the hydraulic mission is the universal replicability of this technology—as the TVA Chairman David Lilienthal proclaimed—in one valley and a thousand (See p.75 for full quote). It was generally assumed that technology was universal and needed no interpreters:

Our foreign visitors see with particular clarity that TVA speaks in a tongue that is universal, a language of things close to the lives of people: soil fertility, forests, electricity, phosphate, factories, minerals, rivers. (Lilienthal 1944, p. 189, emphasis in original.)

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