Aqueduct, The Story of Water
Hadi Afarideh
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22m
کاریز
Directed by Hadi Afarideh • 2021 • Iran
Aqueducts or Kariz were invented and developed by Iranians in the dry regions of Persia in the first millennium BC.
This technology was an underground channel that carried fresh water several kilometres from mountain slopes to plains so that farmers and settlers in those areas could survive the long droughts
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