Kariz (Ancient Aqueduct) system: a review on geoengineering and environmental studies

Ebrahimi, A.; Mehraban, Yousef; Omidvarborna, Hamid; Vakilinejad, Ali; Al-Sayigh, Abdul Razak

doi:10.1007/s12665-021-09545-2

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“…Water management and storage projects have been vital elements in the country. Iran's water history is renowned for its unique underground water canals, qanats (e.g., [17,19,20]). The settlers of arid and semiarid central parts of the country devised an ingenious plan to expand underground water canals that provide all-season water flows for drinking and irrigation.…”

Section: Water Availability Management and Planning In Iranmentioning

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A Preliminary Review of an Unprecedented Cross-Provincial Water Transfer Plan in Iran: No Clear Vision and Stakeholder Mapping

Amiraslani

2023

Water

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This review paper investigates unprecedented recent investment and capital spending in cross-provincial water management and transfer infrastructure in Iran. Although numerous cross-provincial water transfer plans have been implemented in the country, the scale, approach, and stakeholders involved in this recent national plan are unprecedented. This notable national plan includes long water transfer pipelines that pass through seven provinces, aiming at transferring desalinated water from the Persian Gulf to the interior. Regarding the scale, there have been a few cases of transferring water at the cross-provincial level, but mostly across two provinces. The approach has also changed in this plan. Long-term efforts to construct dams for electricity or farming with limited geographical impact have been shifted to desalinating water, long-distance pipe-laying, large-scale electric-powered water pumping, and long-distance underground tunnels. Stakeholders have become more diverse, from the council members of a small village to high-level decision makers at the national level. This paper elaborates on these extraordinary alterations by exemplifying a few other contemporary case studies of water transfer plans in Iran. It also examines the fundamental logic, bottlenecks, and future scenarios of this large-scale plan.

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Section: Water Availability Management and Planning In Iranmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Preliminary Review of an Unprecedented Cross-Provincial Water Transfer Plan in Iran: No Clear Vision and Stakeholder Mapping

Amiraslani

2023

Water

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“…Another major reason for the neglect is that, as mentioned earlier, they face more serious abandonment problems due to groundwater deficiencies. Thus, research on groundwater compensation [ 8 , 31 , 32 ] and macro groundwater regulation [ 33 , 34 , 35 ] is now the center of attention.…”

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Long-Term Sustainability of Water Cellars in Traditional Chinese Villages: Factors Influencing Continuous Use and Effective Water Management Initiatives

Zhou

Matsumoto

Sawaki

2021

IJERPH

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Traditional rainwater harvesting systems have seen a shift of emphasis in recent years. While recognizing its social, economic and environmental contributions, sustainable use in a modern context can be vulnerable. Through a case study, this study focuses on the long-term sustainability of water cellars in traditional villages if reliable piped water is introduced. The aim is to discern the factors and renovation methods that influence residents’ willingness to continue using these water cellars. The results show that the overall willingness to use them is very low. However, regardless of their continued use or non-use, only a few residents would landfill them. Most residents were interested in their renovation, especially regarding simplifying rainwater harvesting methods. In addition, the management time for rainwater harvesting and heritage identity is positively correlated with the willingness for sustainable use; conversely, the identification of the environmental contribution has no positive correlation. Given these findings, we propose carrying out effective renovation that changes the rainwater catchment surface to roofs and increases residents’ awareness that water cellars can only be heritage if they are in use. By defining the long-term sustainability of a water cellar, this study shows how a quantitative approach focusing on heritage users can offer important insights into a constructive evolution rather than a destructive reconstruction under the influence of modernization. Finally, this study provides planners and water resource managers with effective, sustainable management practices for water cellars as well as similar systems in a historical context.

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Numerical modeling of groundwater system with tunnel construction in an urban area of Korea: implications for land subsidence and mitigation measures

Lee,

Jang

2024

Environ Earth Sci

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Kariz (Ancient Aqueduct) system: a review on geoengineering and environmental studies

Cited by 9 publications

References 51 publications

A Preliminary Review of an Unprecedented Cross-Provincial Water Transfer Plan in Iran: No Clear Vision and Stakeholder Mapping

A Preliminary Review of an Unprecedented Cross-Provincial Water Transfer Plan in Iran: No Clear Vision and Stakeholder Mapping

Long-Term Sustainability of Water Cellars in Traditional Chinese Villages: Factors Influencing Continuous Use and Effective Water Management Initiatives

Numerical modeling of groundwater system with tunnel construction in an urban area of Korea: implications for land subsidence and mitigation measures

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