ABSTRACT
As discussed in Chapter 9, G.E. Hutchinson (1903-1991) is considered to be the father of modern limnology. Among his contributions, he authored the four-volume (with more than 3500 combined pages) Treatise of Limnology, which is considered to be one of the most comprehensive studies of limnology in existence. In his 1957 A Treatise on Limnology. Volume 1. Geography, Physics and Chemistry (Hutchinson 1957), he defined 76 different types of lakes based on their formation. However, in this over 1000-page long treatise, Hutchinson wrote only two paragraphs about manmade lakes (as lake type 73, Threlkeld 1990).
