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The Water Below - Saudi Aramco World, Sep/Oct 2014 by Robert W. Lebling is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Article by Robert Lebling. Photographs by George Steinmetz. In hot desert lands where the sun mercilessly evaporates precious surface water, engineers as far back as 3000 years ago developed underground aqueducts, called qanats in Arabic—a laborious but effective technology that works to this day in more than a dozen countries from Morocco to China.

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Robert W. Lebling
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