Flowpath, third edition national meeting on hidrogeology: THE MANAGEMENT OF WATER RESOURCES BETWEEN TRADITIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE QANATS OF SHAHROOD PROVINCE (NORTH-EASTERN IRAN)

Many towns and villages in Iran are nowadays supplied by qanat, a hydraulic and mining technology dating back thousands of years, probably native of Middle East area and widespread in Asia and North Africa. As part of a scientific cooperation agreement between the University of L'Aquila, the Institute of Chemical Methodologies of the Italian Research Council (IMC-CNR) and the Shahrood University of Technology, some qanats of the Province of Shahrood were selected and studied according to the intended use of their waters