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People still do some maintenance on the 8k year old Afghanistan water system (underground aqueducts) because they are still used today. I’m failing to find some
by withinboredom 3y ago
People still do some maintenance on the 8k year old Afghanistan water system (underground aqueducts) because they are still used today. I’m failing to find some good sources, but when I was there in 2008, it was something the Army Core of Engineers was investigating on my base.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThat solves an immediate need though, not a once in a few ten thousand year disaster.
- kaz-inc 3y agothis[1] places them at 3k years old: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
- withinboredom 3y agoThat sounds more right to me than a memory of some random conversations from nearly 20 years ago.