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Algeria
2. The foggaras drain water from the groundwater sources to the oases. ... 5. In Algeria, the foggaras had been progressively abandoned: today they are being ...

http://www.unesco.org/mab/ekocd/algeria.html

Foggaras: Precursors Of The Great Man-Made River
Traditional irrigation systems, known as "foggaras", which tap into the gigantic ... The foggaras were eventually replaced by well and today diesel driven ...

http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=536832

Les oasis à foggaras et les ksour du Grand Erg Occidental - UNESCO ...
UNESCO World Heritage Centre ... Le Touat et Gourara sont des oasis à Foggaras. ... région renferme de multiples foggaras qui irriguaient et irriguent encore ...

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1772/

Les oasis à foggaras et les ksour du Grand Erg Occidental - World ...
Les oasis à foggaras et les ksour du Grand Erg Occidental is part of the ... Click here for a short description of the site, as delivered by the State Party. Year ...

http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/t1772.html

Algeria's Saharan irrigation system threatened by modernisation and ...
... method of irrigation, known as foggaras, was originally created by the ... The foggaras today are in poor shape "because of a lack of maintenance", says ...

http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2007/03/07/feature-01

Garamantes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Garamantes were a Saharan Berber-speaking people who used an elaborate ... The network of tunnels is known to berbers as foggaras. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes

Education kit on combating desertification
A rehabilitation model of traditional techniques: Oasis irrigation and the use of the foggaras system. 2. Gambia, Africa. How to reduce bush fires: ...

http://www.unesco.org/mab/ekocd/index_case.html

Qanat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Qanats (designated foggaras in Algeria) are the source of water for irrigation ... The foggaras are also found at Touat (an area of Adrar 200 km from Gourara) ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat

Algeria - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
jump to the content. UNESCO.org. Education. Natural Sciences. Social & Human Sciences ... Les oasis à foggaras et les ksour du Grand Erg Occidental (2002) ...

http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/dz

Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
What makes resource-dependent settlements unique is the extent to which they are ... An example is the oasis water supply system called karez, qanats, or foggaras. ...

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/310.htm

Kingdom of the Sands
How a Saharan slave-trading people made the desert bloom [abstract] ... water-extraction system, a network of tunnels known as foggaras in Berber. ...

http://www.archaeology.org/0403/abstracts/sands.html

Wetlands in the Sahara — Developments Magazine
In the oases of south-western Algeria, women are doggedly bending over their patches of onions and sweet carrots, ... survival of the foggaras to this day is ...

http://www.developments.org.uk/articles/wetlands-in-the-sahara