Following the widespread debate over why Europe and England industrialized first, rather than Asia, Tvedt, Research Group Leader in Centre for Advanced Studies in Oslo, contends that water systems is a crucial factor missing in the existing literature. He argues that "the transport revolution, the development of the modern factory system, and the growth of the iron and other industries that transformed parts of England from the 1760s to the 1820s were all related to changes in the human relationship to water" whereas the central economic and political regions of India and China did not have water systems that could be used or developed as easily and profitable as they could be in parts of England." (p. 48)
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