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1922–2002 South Africa
Joan Sydney Whitmore (1922–2002) was a South African hydrologist specialising in agriculture and water. She wrote a book about drought management on farmland, and many reports on water and agriculture, during her career as a government scientist.
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Which he was a pioneer in the statistical design and evaluation of controlled catchment Experiments.
That the entire scheme was completed without provision of drainage canals for the return flow was certainly an oversight.
What of the work for which the HRI was intended.
It was clearly the view of the "founding fathers.
One example being mulching to curb unproductive evaporation of soil moisture, so as to make more available for assimilation and thus the growth and yield of crops.
That our planet's water resources, dating back to its creation, are substantially fixed but are both highly mobile and subject to constant changes in form between the gaseous form.
We can also look back with admiration on the construction, largely by manual labour, of the Vaal-Hartz Irrigation Scheme.
I recall hearing vivid accounts by the late Dr M S du Toit, an eminent soil scientist who later became Secretary for Agriculture.
This is a view I still uphold.
A major scheme by any standards, which was undertaken primarily to give employment to many of those hit by the great depression of the early '30's.
Later came bold and imaginative schemes in yet another sphere, that of large-scale transfer of surplus water from some catchments to make good deficiencies in others.
The Interdepartmental Commission which, to counter the growing fragmentation of hydrological research, recommended the establishment of a central, unifying division of hydrological research that hydrology was, and should be nurtured as, a HOLISTIC science.
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