Old and traditional works for bringing water to people and fields, such as aqueducts, qanats, stepwells, norias, shadoofs and water towers. A member belongs here when the cited article describes it as a water supply or water lifting work. The group is one of the groupings under this field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field. Its members appear in the Browse By view for the field, so a reader can move from this group to each member entry and to the sources cited there.
Traditional Water Supply and Lifting Works
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Aqueduct (water supply), Wikipedia
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An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away.
Qanat - Wikipedia
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A qanāt (Persian: قَنَات) or kārīz (کَارِیز) is a water supply system that was developed in ancient Iran for the purpose of transporting usable water to the surface from an aquifer or a well through an underground aqueduct.
Stepwell - Wikipedia
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Stepwells, also known as vav (in Gujarati) or baori (in Hindi), are wells, cisterns or ponds with a long corridor of steps that descend to the water level.
Noria, Wikipedia
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A noria (Arabic: ناعورة, romanized: nā‘ūra) is a hydropowered scoop wheel used to lift water into a small aqueduct, either for the purpose of irrigation or to supply water to cities and villages.
Shadoof - Wikipedia
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A shadoof or shaduf, well pole, well sweep, sweep, swape, or simply a lift is a tool that is used to lift water from a well or another water source onto land or into another waterway or basin.
Water tower, Wikipedia
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A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection.
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