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The Persian Desert (2015)
A Persian friend told me about the historical use of underground tunnels to transport water from the mountains for irrigation -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
Alkhwarizmi
on Feb 1, 2020
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Mind you this system of irrigation and water systems predates the romans! This was an insane engineering and creative solution to a necessity.
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