Hydraulic Bureaucracies and the Hydraulic Mission: Flows of Water, Flows of Power

By F. Molle, P. Mollinga, P. Wester. 2009

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Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks (2022, background): “Few large rivers have escaped the ‘hydraulic mission’ of the 20th century [131] and only around 23% of the world’s rivers flow uninterrupted to the ocean [136], making them of great interest for global conservation efforts.”
Re-politicising water governance: exploring water re-allocations in terms of justice† (2014, background): “The intervention and engineering orientation of water expertise favours such an approach, which is institutionally reproduced in water bureaucracies dedicated to a strong hydraulic mission (see Molle et al. 2009).”
Evolving water science in the Anthropocene (2013, background): “These developments, associated with large and powerful water bureaucracies (Molle et al., 2009), allowed for unprecedented growth in the production of agricultural commodities and energy and confirmed the belief that man could fully control water and be the master of nature.”