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Traditional qanat or underground water-channel infrastructure used to move water through arid landscapes

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Why Did Civilizations Build Tanks, Canals and Qanats?

Water scarcity drove civilizations to engineer reservoirs, tanks, canals, qanats and harvesting systems tuned to local terrain. Tradivior will compare these technologies and ask which remain useful under modern climate…