Surely the term 'river engineering' is an oxymoron? Apart from this example of nonsense being practiced on Poland using pubic money, there more absurd examples - the discharge of the SyrDarya into the Aral Sea is one,. With World Bank funds the Govt there has undertaken questionable measures to race the flow of the rivers to a specially enclosed part of the Aral Sea - the new water circulation (or non circulation) has left the 'lake' as a toxic pool. Significant efforts to try to get governments to adopt 'managed aquifer recharge' are being made by the International Association of Hydrogeologists. More is needed - much more - even in enlightened countries, 'river engineering' has got to be totally re configured into catchment management - thus widening the focus from the channel of the river to its whole catchment.
Surely the term 'river engineering' is an oxymoron? Apart from this example of nonsense being practiced on Poland using pubic money, there more absurd examples - the discharge of the SyrDarya into the Aral Sea is one,. With World Bank funds the Govt there has undertaken questionable measures to race the flow of the rivers to a specially enclosed part of the Aral Sea - the new water circulation (or non circulation) has left the 'lake' as a toxic pool. Significant efforts to try to get governments to adopt 'managed aquifer recharge' are being made by the International Association of Hydrogeologists. More is needed - much more - even in enlightened countries, 'river engineering' has got to be totally re configured into catchment management - thus widening the focus from the channel of the river to its whole catchment.