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198 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
at what he saw forthcoming—"Reckless deforestation results in the drying
out of mountain sources, dying of whole forests, uncontrollable mountain
streams, silting of water and the sinking of subterranean water stores
near where human interference took place."
"Water follows the same laws as the blood in our bodies and the sap in
plants; it has analogically the right of being treated as the blood of earth."
He sharply criticized hydrologists—the experts on water—and said that
they had only their own careers in mind and had failed radically to
understand what was happening in watercourses. "They did nothing,
except reinforce . . . quite haphazardly, some banks of rivers and brooks,
but managed to forget everything about the water itself as if it had no
concern."
OFFICIAL EXPERTS JEER
Hydrologists scorned Schauberger's non-academic warnings. He had
learned that river water is made up of layers of different densities and the
lamination has a purpose in generating a charge in healthy water. Water is
not merely a chemical compound, he insisted; it should not be recklessly
chopped up in hydro-electric turbines, much less injected with chlorine or
unnecessarily exposed to heating.
The experts hooted when he pointed out that in a person, a temperature
change of only a tenth of a degree celcius could mean sickness or health.
Was he comparing a planet with a person Did he think Earth was a living
organism with biologically-active bloodstream They ignored the
heretical concepts.
Schauberger offered to organize a job creation project to rebuild watercourses.
If artificially-channelled rivers were to be uncaged and restored
to their meanders and oxbows sheltered by vegetation, would the rivers
again keep their own channels clean and stop their own wild flooding
Schauberger was never given the chance to find out. He was realistic
enough to look for a more feasible way of rebuilding, and in 1929 he
patented a system of braking barriers to be inserted along a troublesome
watercourse. The barriers would redirect the axis of flow toward the middle
of a stream, reducing the amount of soil carried away from the banks.
Another complex Schauberger patent offered to both control the action of
outlet water from holding dams and to strengthen the dams by including
factors of temperature and motion.
Was anyone from academia listening One renowned hydrologist eventually
was; he started out by denigrating Schauberger and ended up following
him around in the woods and even into a chilly river. Professor
Forcheimer literally waded into Schauberger's teachings about the laws
governing water's behaviour, and the professor decided that the self-edu-