"The acequia is the life of the village. Without the acequias, all these villages would be a dryland, all these farms would be dry. It was very well planned."

From a long piece on centuries-old technology to harvest water high in the mountains and guide it into underground aquifers for seasonal use.

#water #WaterSystems #SowingWater #drought #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #agriculture #WaterRights

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-the-moorish-invention-that-tamed-spains-mountains