The Qanats of Iran (original) (raw)

April 1, 1968

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Some 3,000 years ago the Persians learned how to dig underground aqueducts that would bring mountain ground water to arid plains. Today the system provides 75 percent of the water used in Iran

By H. E. Wulff

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