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(The #AcequiaSystem of #WaterConsevation)
"...build them from the #Moors.
The Moors started building #acequias over 10,000 years ago to grow crops in the #MiddleEast and #NorthAfrica".
#Moors are #Berbers and other people from the ancient #Roman province of #Mauretania, in what is now North-Western Africa, who supported the #Arab in the conquest of the #Iberian peninsula in the 7th-10th century
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@MJmusicinears
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(The #AcequiaSystem of #WaterConsevation)
"...build them from the #Moors.
The Moors started building #acequias over 10,000 years ago to grow crops in the #MiddleEast and #NorthAfrica".
#Moors are #Berbers and other people from the ancient #Roman province of #Mauretania, in what is now North-Western Africa, who supported the #Arab in the conquest of the #Iberian peninsula in the 7th-10th century
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The #AcequiaSystem of #WaterConsevation:
"The ancient acequia irrigation system—a “community-controlled irrigation system”—has proven to be a lifeline for small-scale farmers in the Southwest. The new Spanish arrivals introduced this system to the Americas. "
Yes, but anyone having seen the #Alhambra knows that the #Moors introduced them to #Spain:
https://mastodon.world/@MJmusicinears/109845032043812695
"However, acequias were not a Spanish innovation. The Spanish learned how to..."
How an Ancient Irrigation Method Makes Sustainable Life Possible in the U.S. Southwest https://citizentruth.org/how-an-ancient-irrigation-method-makes-sustainable-life-possible-in-the-u-s-southwest/ #WaterConservation The #AcequiaSystem is adaptive and beneficial for the #Environment The earthen ditches enhance water seepage into the soil, refill the aquifer, create lush narrow wetlands, and boost biodiversity #WaterCrisis #sustainability #Irrigation
Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions. Here in the U.S. Southwest, we are trapped between the extremes of a decades-long megadrought and sudden violent flooding. In New Mexico, the feverish heat started far too early: on June 14, 2021, Albuquerque broke […]
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