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    Qanat (redirect from Khettara)
    karez in Afghanistan and Pakistan, foggara in Algeria, qanat in Malta, khettara in Morocco, falaj in Oman and the United Arab Emirates, and uyūn in Saudi...
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    system draws from both surface waters and subterranean waters. A series of khettaras (a type of underground canal) draws subterranean waters from the phreatic...
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    large houses, the Almoravids built an original hydraulic system called khettara. It is an underground drainage tunnel that brings water from the groundwater...
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    its water supply by creating the underground water system known as the khettara. In 1125, the preacher Ibn Tumart settled in Tin Mal in the mountains to...
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    of their fertility may derive from irrigation systems called foggaras, khettaras, lkhttarts, or a variety of other regional names. In some oases systems...
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    ISBN 9783447020022. El Faiz, Mohammed; Ruf, Thierry (2010). "An Introduction to the Khettara in Morocco: Two Contrasting Cases". Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions:...
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    (ဘုရားကိုးဆူ, lit. "Nine Deities") – This was a devotional rite performed by Khettara Brahmins. The deities referenced were either Buddhist: Buddha and the 8...
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    by Arab warriors, it was created during the Almoravid period, using a khettara network. The ancient tale (more than 1000 years old) refers to this garden...
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    in a more arid environment, was supplied in large part by a system of khettaras, an ingenious and complex system by which an underground channel was dug...
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    of Arid Environments, 33(3), 321-336. Lightfoot, D. R. (1996). Moroccan khettara: traditional irrigation and progressive desiccation. Geoforum, 27(2), 261-273...
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    this cistern probably relied in turn on the revolutionary hydraulics of khettaras, a drainage system characteristic of historic Morocco. Base of the Almoravid...
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    dry. Water was brought to the city and to the gardens by a network of khettaras: an ancient method where underground channels were dug at a steady gradient...
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    importantly, he introduced a new system of waterworks, via cisterns and khettaras (gravity-driven underground canals) designed by his engineer Abd Allah...
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    the rest of the city) via a network of underground channels known as khettaras. There is also a small modern amphitheater on the edge of the reservoir...
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    needs grew, a modern khettara with far greater output flow was dug in 1932-33 to water the Agdal. Nonetheless, even this new khettara wasn't enough and much...
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    have traditionally depended on an efficient irrigation system known as 'khettara,' but rising temperatures and drought, along with phosphate and silver...
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