Qanat rehabilitation in the MENA region from Morocco to Iraq
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The document discusses qanats, which are underground aqueduct systems that transport water from an aquifer to surface areas. It focuses on qanat rehabilitation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa region from Morocco to Iraq. Key points discussed include collective action challenges for qanat maintenance, pilot rehabilitation projects conducted from 2000 to 2004, and the use of tools like GIS and digital video to document qanat systems and oral histories.
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Qanat rehabilitation in the MENA region from Morocco to Iraq
- 1. Qanat rehabilitation in the MENA region from Morocco to Iraq By Dr. Joshka Wessels
- 2. Nice to meet you ! Combining visual anthropology and geography for Sustainable Traditional Water Management. Eco-documentaries about water, sustainable development, ecopeace, sanitation and the environment. Films broadcast on BBC World and Al Jazeera English, Discovery Channel, The Water Channel.
- 3. PhD Thesis 2008 “ TO COOPERATE OR NOT TO COOPERATE…?” Collective action for rehabilitation of traditional water tunnel systems (qanats) in Syria Promotors: Ton Dietz - UvA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tony Allan - SOAS/Kings college, London, UK Support from ICARDA, UNU, SDC, DGIS Professor Iwao Kobori (Tokyo University)
- 5. What is a qanat ? Source: Prof. Dale Lightfoot, Oklahoma State University
- 6. What is a qanat ? Qanat as a human ecosystem
- 7. PhD Thesis - problem tree Qanats in Syria are being abandoned Qanats fall dry Qanats do not give enough revenue Qanats cannot provide enough water and food Population explosion Changing socio-economic environment Overexploitation groundwater resources Climate change Lack of collective action for maintenance Qanats are destroyed Earthquakes, floods and wars Introduction of newer extraction technologes Socio-political changes In landuse Landreform and redivision of land
- 8. Pilot renovations carried out between 2000 and 2004
- 10. Digital Video to document oral history and knowledge
- 16. Almost 40% of the qanats in this region have died since the onset of drought in 2005 (most of those stopped in 2006-2008).
- 17. Using GIS and Google Earth for documentation and survey of Karezes – PhD study Hawta Khayyat at Oklahoma State University under supervision of Prof. Dale Lightfoot
- 18. Using GIS and Google Earth for documentation and survey of Karezes
- 40. Water from the Dawn of Civilization The need for interdisciplinary cooperation and holistic approach Participatory development approach Involvement environmental NGOs, Civil society and Communities Designate Qanats as World Heritage both tangible and intangible
Editor's Notes
- e.g. from our karez survey (south of Erbil): shows our GPS point data collected in the field, overlaid on Google Earth to check the accuracy of the location and the accuracy of the overlay with Google Earth.
- e.g. karez dried before 2005 and karez dried 2005-2009 depicted on the satellite image in Google Earth.
- What is the benefit or value? What is the goal?