Excerpt from Big Dam Foolishness: The Problem of Modern Flood Control and Water Storage It is intended to smash into a sixty-century-old thought pattern and question certain petrified concepts that seem to have been taken for granted by those who deal with the behavior of natural water. The book is expected to arouse the criticism of those who stick to the Old conventional pattern. On behalf of a rapidly growing school of thought which rejects that pattern, it is hoped that the critics will meet the main issues of this book with a fresh set of arguments, without resorting to the hackneyed formulae of which the following are typical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.