Qanat Knowledge Construction and Maintenance /

• Main Authors: Semsar Yazdi, Ali Asghar (Author), Labbaf Khaneiki, Majid (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Environment.; Water-supply.; Cultural heritage.; Civil engineering.; Technology > History.; Water pollution.; Ethnology.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Water Industry/Water Technologies.; History of Technology.; Cultural Heritage.; Civil Engineering.

This book offers a ready solution for those who wish to learn more about this fascinating part of our water history and makes accessible to the wider world the traditional knowledge gained from building and maintaining qanats for more than 2,500 years. There is much more here than a summary of the n...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Hydrology mechanism of qanat
• Chapter 3. Locatingqanat
• Chapter 4. Digging of shaft wells and qanat gallery
• Chapter 5. Barriers and limitations of qanat construction and rehabilitation
• Chapter 6. Tools and Equipments
• Chapter 7. Qanat maintenance and preservation
• Chapter 8. Qanat related Structures.