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qanat
Wiktionary
n. An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley
n. (alternative spelling of qanat English)
Wikipedia
A qanāt (/) is a gently sloping underground channel with a series of vertical access shafts, used to transport water from an aquifer under a hill. Qanāts create a reliable supply of water for human settlements and irrigation in hot, arid, and semi-arid climates.
The qanat technology is known to have been developed in Iran by the Persian people sometime in the early 1st millennium BC, and spread from there slowly westward and eastward.
The value of the qanat is directly related to the quality, volume, and regularity of the water flow. Much of the population of Iran and other arid countries in Asia and North Africa historically depended upon the water from qanats; the areas of population corresponded closely to the areas where qanats are possible. Although a qanat was expensive to construct, its long-term value to the community, and thereby to the group that invested in building and maintaining it, was substantial.
Qanat is a water management system.
Qanat or Qannat may refer to various places in Iran:
- Qanat, Bushehr
- Qannat, Kavar, Fars Province
- Qanat, Rostam, Fars Province
- Qanat, Sepidan, Fars Province
- Qanat, Hormozgan
- Qanat, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
- Qanat, Lorestan
- Qanat, South Khorasan
- Qanat-e Kasian, Lorestan
Usage examples of "qanat".
Leto is able singlehandedly to wage a guerilla war from the desert, shattering qanat and sietch alike, and in a few months turning back the course of the ecological transformation.
He talked to the Fremen about water, about dunes anchored by grass, about palmaries filled with date palms, about open qanats flowing across the desert.
He pressed on to the qanat, peered down and saw the swirl of predator fish in the dark flow.
Raiders from the Broken Lands breached the qanats at Kagga Basin and spilled all of their waters into the sands.
Sandtrout leaped into qanats and shattered to become hosts of small replicas.
As qanats were shattered, Fremen pulled back to the northern and southern lines which once had marked the extent of their holdings.
He talked to the Fremen about water, about dunes anchored by grass, about palmaries filled with date palms, about open qanats flowing across the desert.
Her village had been a poor one, a pioneer venture built far beyond more secure barriers such as the qanats and ring canals of Keen.
She identified the low brick structures that marked the first line of qanats and, beyond them, the enclosed barrel-curve of a surface aqueduct.