Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: For a long time, man had to explore groundwater by constructing special hydraulic works. Thus, in ancient times, hydraulic civilizations such as the foggaras in Iran, Egypt, China and Latin America were born. In the Algerian Sahara, the foggara has played a leading role in the field of abstraction of groundwater distribution and sharing through formal and strict rules. Today, this technique has been disappearing and drying up. This decline does not only increase year by year, there were over a thousand foggaras in the early 1960s, but today only 915 foggaras have been listed for all those regions. Among the factors favoring the decline of foggara is the exploitation of water by deep holes drilled near the latter. In this article, we try to show the impact of drilling on the foggara.
Source: Applied Water Science
Authors: Bensaada Mohamed, Boualem Remini
Institutions: École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, University of Blida
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,490
OpenAlex ID: W55772445