Kang Bing, China Daily's editor-in-chief, drinks from an underground stream at the
Karez Musuem in Turpan
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There is no law in Balochistan to regulate the use of water from tube wells or surface wells within the vicinity of
karezes. In some areas there was a riwaj that no well should be allowed to dug close to the
karez mother well (250 yards in case of soft land and 500 yards for stoney land).
The development of its is important for poverty alleviation in rural areas, said Focal Person PATRIP-Foundation, while talking to livestock farmers during a free mobile veterinary camp set-up in Pak-Afghan border area Qamar Din
Karez to facilitate the livestock farmers.
Taliban fighters had attacked the police check post named
Karez Shekhan in Sheb Koh district late Thursday night.
According to a statement by the ministry, a group of Taliban insurgents launched coordinated attack on a police check post in the village of
Karez located in central areas of Farah Province, Khaama Press reported.
He gave the example of the
Karez system in Balochistan which survived for two thousand years but is now being destroyed by the advent of tube wells and other modern systems.
"The Peshmerga forces managed to regain control of the villages (Fiqirok, Kirkamish, Kopanki, Hanka,
Karez, Ksrig, Large Brochure, Small Brochure ), in addition to controling of the strategic crossroad that connects Mosul, Kski, and Aowain in Zammar.
Sayed Murad Sadat, district governor of Nawzad, has confirmed the government forces control only one of the 360
karez (
karez is a horizontal irrigation tunnel) and the office of the district governor.
The blast occurred in the Sauf Wa
Karez area of the district on Thursday, the deputy police chief for Daikundi said.
The enemies used bunkers and an intricate
karez system to attack the Marines.
Add to that the collapse of the ancient underground water cisterns--known as the
karez system, frequent droughts, the receding snow melt from the Hindu Kush, and an insurgency that now sees control of water as a weapon and the prospects for a stable and flourishing agrarian society as Afghanistan moves to transition in 2014, look grim indeed.