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Kariz Irrigation System Summary
404 words, approx. 1 pages
Kariz (also known as kareze or qanat) is an ancient underground channel irrigation system invented in Persia (Iran). It is a sloping tunnel that brings water from an underground source in a range of hills down to a dry plain at the foot of these hills....
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Qanat Information
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A qanat (from Arabic: قناة) or kareez (from Persian: كاريز) is a water management system used to provide a reliable supply of water to human settlements or for irrigation in hot, arid and semi-arid climates. The widespread distribution of qanat...


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The Geographical Journal
The Origin and Diffusion of Qanats in Arabia: New Evidence from the northern and southern Peninsula.
09/01/2000: 7,552 words, approx. 25 pages
In scattered areas of the Arabian Peninsula, beginning several centuries before the first Christian millennium and for several centuries after, public works efforts were mounted to convey water from mountain aquifers, via subsurface aqueducts, onto drier valleys and plains. These subterranean, gravity-driven filtration galleries,...
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Antiquity
Old World irrigation technology in a New World context: qanats in Spanish colonial western Mexico.
06/01/1999: 4,372 words, approx. 15 pages
Archaeological research in Jalisco, Mexico, have resulted in the discovery of subterranean water conduction devices known as qanats. Qanats are believed to originate from the Middle East, where the land is usually arid and regular irrigation is necessary to convert arid lands into arable...
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AP News
Egypt's elections turn violent; 1 killed
6/11/2007: 728 words, approx. 2 pages
Lines of police barred opposition voters from some polling stations Monday, and violence erupted between supporters of rival candidates, killing one person and marring the elections for Egypt's upper house of parliament.The balloting was the latest showdown between the entrenched ruling party and the Muslim...
 


 

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