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“The whole area was a kind of qanat system where man had helped nature in opening up the whole area to catastrophic collapse.”

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“Water management for irrigation purposes, here in an above-ground channel or jui, but also in underground karez and qanat systems, is labor-intensive and predicated on cooperation.”

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“The poor had to just take a siesta in the heat or the public access atechamber to the local qanat.”

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“The beginning of the qanat always started higher in elevation than the terminus, since it ran solely by gravity.”

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“Iranian qanat builders of the twentieth century kept their tunnels straight from shaft to shaft by keeping two lit lanterns placed a few feet apart directly behind the digger.”

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“In one of his conscious moments he surmised that he was in a qanat, in one of the underground rivers the wise men had said ex­isted, but he had no way of knowing whether he was being carried along by the river or simply hanging in one spot.”

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“All around was evidence of the explosion of water and dammed-up pressure that had brought Casca into the air once he had pierced the underground dam that held back the qanat.”

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“William attributes his Scrabble acumen to his very thorough education in university, which opened his eyes, he says, to premium words such as "aureolae," "qanat," and "euripi" my spell-check flagged two of these words as being unknown; that's how good William is.”

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“A chapter on Mesopotamian earthworks may include an account of the Assyrian king Sargon II, who "leapt from rock to rock like an ibex, then sat down on a rock and had a cold drink": a discussion of the qanat, an ancient irrigation system that involves digging sloped tunnels into water-bearing hills, may throw up an Iranian proverb observing that "snake charmers, lion tamers and qanat diggers very seldom die in their beds".”

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