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№ 374WaterQanats and Karez: The Underground Canals of the Dry World
The ancient gently-sloping tunnels that tap mountain groundwater and carry it for miles underground to the desert's edge — gravity-fed, evaporation-proof, and self-limiting water systems that watered civilisations.
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№ 452WaterSpate Irrigation: Farming the Flash Flood
An ancient dryland method that diverts the brief, muddy floods of seasonal rivers onto fields — irrigating and fertilising them in a single event, and growing crops in places with almost no reliable rain.
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