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public reputation because instead of publishing papers for 

 publication, he has published reports. 



And you have to get it into the literature so it will be 

 circulated? 



That's right. And he hasn't done that. 



It's like the final step of the research. 



That's right. He has done everything else but that, 

 never done that. 



He has 



Eventually Dick Tabors left as our funds ran out and 

 went to MIT, where he works on their energy project. Peter 

 is still on the faculty at Harvard as a full professor in 

 the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, but I don't 

 think they are very happy with him for just this reason that 

 he hasn't published very much. One thing he did publish 

 recently was an article in the Atlantic on the United States 

 water resources problems. 



Anyhow, the purpose of this Ford Foundation project 

 was literally to train and to develop a capability for 

 analysis in the Indian scientific community. This was the 

 kind of analysis that had first been started by Harold 

 Thomas, the so-called Harvard Water Project, in the late 

 1950s, early 1960s, where they applied modern analytical 

 methods, including so-called system analysis, to water 

 resources development. Bob Dorfman was very much involved 

 with that. Henry Jacoby, and then Peter Rogers and Joe 

 Harrington. A man who later went to North Carolina was sort 

 of the manager of it. 



That was a great step forward, but then other people 

 have taken it up and gone much further, other engineering 

 departments and engineering firms . This was a pioneering, 

 typical university type of effort. Then Peter applied it, 

 as I said, with these Indian engineers and scientists and 

 economists in India. 



One of the people that he became very much involved 

 with was an economist at the University of Delhi, Professor 

 Bhadic. They have worked together recently on energy 

 problems in India, rural energy problems, problems of 

 biomass as an energy source. 



One aspect of this was something that 1 did with Teddy 

 Herman, an Israeli engineer. I was much impressed by the 

 waste of water in the Ganges. If you study the flow of the 

 Ganges, you find that about four-fifths of it takes place 

 during the monsoon season. 



The reason why so much water is wasted is that they 

 can't use it during the monsoon season, when a lot of 

 rainfall and flooding takes place over large areas in the 

 Ganges Plain in India and in Bangladesh. About half of 

 Bangladesh is flooded during the monsoon season, literally 

 flooded with several feet of water on the ground. On the 



