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A new perspective"
"This is a perspective that is very similar to that of Viktor
Schauberger's way of reasoning. He early observed that untouched
watercourses had a kind of structural stability. From those
observations he suggested methods for river regulation --- based on the
perspective of giving water impulses for self-organization to take
place. By using suitable guide vanes and by taking into account the
effect of the surrounding vegetation on water flow and temperature, he
could make a watercourse self-organize into a stable riverbed.
This way of regulating rivers and watercourses differs from the
traditional, which tries to steer the flow, and which disregards the
'eco-system' which the flowing water and its interaction with riverbed
and vegetation makes up --- with floods and bank erosion as the natural
result. Schauberger e.g. noted that the sediment transport capacity of
the flow affected sand and bank development, which affected vegetation,
which in turn affected the flow image of the water, through among other
things the vegetation's cooling effect. The system bites itself in the
tail, as it were.
A problem has been to interpret the language of Schauberger, as it was
more that of a naturalist than of a hydrologist. He more looked at the
wholeness of the system, than to its detailed composition, and focused
on its flow image, without knowing or modelling the underlying
mechanisms."
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