Ancient Underground Canal REBORN!
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- Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the incredible work of the Deccan Heritage Foundation who along with the Indian Heritage Cities Network Foundation are seeking to restore the Karez of Naubad, which is an ancient underground water supply canal built in the 1400's. We tour the Karez in the city of Bidar, in the state of Karnataka with Srikara Dattatreya, the administrator of the Deccan Heritage Foundation. The Karez is also known as a qanat line or chain of wells. This is the story of how and why that ancient system has been resurrected.
This video was filmed in late 2019 when I was in India filming the "India's Water Revolution" series, but was never edited until now.
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This is quickly become one of my new favorite channels. Learning about permaculture, other lands, and ancient techniques adds a whole 'nother dimension to understanding the world. Thank you.
Always happy when I see a notification from you! The ancients all over the world truly understood that water was life. Some of the ancient constructions in regards to water management are just staggering!
When you have to move water manually, you get very motivated to make it easier!
@@temujanradari1105 you don't know how hard I can relate to that!!! 😂
You have the best name ever
Yes! Back in India again! Love your Indian series! :)
I'm not back in India again, unfortunately! This is footage that I never published from my last trip. But that day is coming and I very much look forward to being back in India
More tunnels should be explored and should be preserved well it's so ancient and ethenic city Bidar
Thank you for profiling the unsung heroes bringing life sustaining water to their communities
Reminds me of docu I saw a few days ago about qanats in Morocco that provided water from an oasis to the surrounding area. It's incredible how far this knowledge reached in the past and sad how it is slowly forgotten.
Brb binge watching every video on your channel. Best youtuber ever.
"Eternal Sustenance" by the guest speaker at the end of the video is such a profound combination of words.
One amazing old school trech and the thought that went into making it. Two the group that is working on restoring this? Very damn clever one helping people and two likely to get the people who use it to take care of it and invest at least emotionally in it.
Kudos to Srikara, He is making a difference on the ground, I am sure with his skill set he could have gone to any country to make money
Thanks for sharing this. I was in Bidar maybe ten years back but had no idea this was there. If/when you get a chance, if you haven't already, there's a system of distributing water across a large landscape in Kathmandu (part of or connecting the ancient cities). I don't remember the details, but I do remember being awed. All I remember is that there are a number of manmade reservoirs connected by canals and a system of controlling distribution. Kind of like these wells in Bidar, you wouldn't know it was there unless you had a REALLY good eye or fore knowledge. On the theme of water, the step wells of India are nothing short of spectacular. You don't have to be very keen to stumble upon them either. It's a bit of a mission to get to the better ones, but worth it. E.g. Chand Baori and Adalaj. The people who built these things would surely be horrified by modern practices.
Evidently Bali had/has a very sophisticated water control plan that overlaps religious belief. I don't remember anything about this.
Thank you
Ancient Indians work were absolutely thousand yrs advance than our today's modern generations can even think of.. we must learn from them..and it has began..we lost some valuable years but we hopefully get their where our ancestors would like us to reach..they really must be horrified watching the current conditions.. but hopefully in coming things ll get sorted n ll become better
It shows how advanced were our ancestors. Nice explanation by Srikara.
Wonderful and amazing!
Whoa, I hope these citizens realise how great that karez is and take care of this masterpiece.
Awesome visuals for explanation, as always, thanks for sharing this !
So beautiful ❤️ thank you so much for sharing your amazing research 🙏
I felt thirsty the entire time i was watching
Great video as always.
Thanks for the video !
share a very useful video thank you my friend👍🌹🌹
Awesome story!
As an Indian I wish I can grow crop in my village
Read about Permaculture and water harvesting that you can do, especially in arid climates. Geoff Lawton has many videos which explain pieces of this win win way of thinking, working with the land and all the living beings who touch it, and the incredibly beneficial effect implementing the appropriate aspects of permaculture to your land will have on it and on your lives.
Over 6 hundred years of canal use but it took just a few short decades to be polluted by modern industrial waste and plastic.😫
Really cool
Hope the people will maintain and not pollute it.
So awesome and inspiring! I love all these India videos. Great music too!
By any chance, do we have knowledge of how these Karez were dug out?
This is just one example of the good works done during the reign of Muslim rulers. They not only had a great sense of beautifying their environments with gardens, but also implementing municiple projects for the welfare of the public without dicrimination of caste, creed or religion. As this program acknowledges, the Karez system follows on the tradition of the underground Qanat system borrowed from Iran where it was developed to minimize evaporation of water when left on the surface. It is commendable that they are trying to restore the system now. Now with new machinery and technology, India can embark on a Qanat system nation-wide to help prevent water wastage, and of course there should be strict laws to enforce waste disposal systems to prevent water being polluted.
Great
We have karez in Baluchistan
Karez ko jinda karo…
The youngster s doing d right work
It would be really great if all the vaavs in Gujarat could be recharged!
I was watching some of this in conjunction with videos showing how some of the large inland lakes, seas etc. have dried up since the last flood/ice age, glacial period. There must be a 10,000+ yr history of climate and water resources.
Sorry if this sounds petty but the music is a little too loud while Millison is talking and it is distracting. We know this is in India, so why the constant music anyway?
Always so crazy that the Indian Gov't's insistence on wasting an excessive amount of money on nuclear weapons, military hardware etc when India as a whole, doesn't have a modern network of sewage management systems, general waste management collection & recycling, clean water supplies & reliable electricity supply for all, is persistent feature of how India is governed. Absolutely nuts that a good number of India's rivers are considered sacred but on average, effectively tend to rank as among the top largest open sewers in the world due to lack of proper modern waste water management & rigid enforcement of environmental protection legislation.
Lol super power by 2000! Super power by 2010! Super power by 2020! Super power by 2030! Yeah.. Live long enough you see that isn't happening. The smart ones leave to western nations. What's left is an overpopulated shithole without toilets.
India spends something like half a billion dollars every year on cleaning up rivers. India went from 46% of people with access to sewage to 98.61% between 2011 and 2019
@@mvalthegamer2450 That's fantastic news to hear assuming this statistic also includes those living in the slums. But infrastructure surrounding waste collection and recycling remains woefully inadequate hence India's waterways remain some of the world's biggest open air sewers, primarily plastics and industrial waste discharges.
Can't remember which city it was in now, possibly Mumbai, but one guy got thoroughly fed up with all the plastic waste on his local beach so started litter picking. Despite the locals' initial puzzlement & laughter, they gradually began to join in as they saw the positive changes he was making. Today that beach is fit for recreation & the community driven movement that sprouted from just one man's decision not to wait for someone else to deal with an issue, has spread further inland to tackle other rivers & streams, spreading awareness as they go about the importance of not just dumping rubbish anywhere & recycling instead. The community continues to do regular litter picks.
Yes we do have the problems you have highlighted. We don't spend money on military out of jingoism. India has faced cruel
invasions in the past; we have nuclear powered aggressive neighbors; we need to be strong on that front also.
@babureddy6478 Not out of jingoism to be sure, but out of a disproportionate reaction to the very issues you raise. This will sound cynical of me, but India's Gov't wouldn't be the first one to ring the nationalism bell in order to curry favour with the electorate and as a means of distraction from their failure to adequately address the everyday issues the average citizen faces, in India that's largely the poor, in order to maintain their grip on power. To be fair, China and successive Pakistani Govt's have just as successfully engaged in this practice for as long as India has; Modi is a shameless tactician/practitioner when it comes to stirring up nationalism, particularly Hindu nationalism, for the purposes of retaining political power. It's both a crass and corrupt practice utilised throughout all the ages of civilisation.
No Matter where we are we destroy our own selves because we are ignorant and the children learn from what we do the time for change is long overdue
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It's not a canal. It's old roads. Global Mud flooding aka global great reset aka deluge.
References Jonlevi, stuffed beagle, Michelle Gibson, autodidact 2, Paul Cook, cracmal, divergent Channels.
way better than open canals losing water to evaporation.
Great 👍
Andrew, I found 2 videos on another youtube channel, and I am trying to understand the principles behind it. It is on permaculture design. I have a small plot of land, quite flat and I wanted to integrate a permaculture, swale type design on it but I feel the land is too small and too flat for swales.
is it alright if I share the video with you and get your view about it. I really like the way you explain in your videos
There are more and more people explaining permaculture and you can keep searching and watching until you find all that helps you understand it.
Geoff Lawton is my favorite teacher in this field, and his demonstration plots are an inspiration to all who live near them and all who see them.
Have you seen the crescent-shaped holes dug by the people trying to turn deserts green?
Swales are supposed to keep water in place so it soaks into the ground. Maybe a few shallow depressions will do the same on your flat land.
Sincerely,
Some guy on TH-cam
There are ancient Cara'ses in balochistan.which are even older
That's interesting.
Nice
India having such a hot climate is a benefit not a hinderance,,,, the issue is your not capitalising on it,,, human urine can be turning into biofuel and Feces fertiliser, The climate can be used to sterilise feces making it a viable resource thus they no longer contaminate your water supply... Our modern infrastructure is designed with the assumption that its waste,,,, but that does not mean a new model of infrastructure cant be created to make it a resource...its down to copying previous examples from else where that we manage these things in the same way globally....seriously we are flushing nutrients down the toilet whilst importing it from other places....build infrastructure that takes advantage of your climates output of energy and mechanise the process so humans do not need to touch anything until its completely sterile enough to no longer be a concern.. From the family toilet to the waste treatment plants we address our waste AS waste but if we redesign the toilet and the entire infrastructure attached to it you will find it can be a commodity...the futures intelligent the future should be an evolution of the past...not a copy of it...
Call the Australians they now have a way of turning all plastic Back to Oil. Get them to come and Build some Recycling Plants for you.
Kindly read Indian history.. nothing came with Islam.please get facts checked.. Harappan valley, 5K yrs, etc were all of Indian origin n their water canal n other etc system were mind blowing but due to natural disasters they moved more inland n spread throughout Bharat and created their various infrastructure.. accordingly..kindly get facts checked.. before naming some community... Angor wat is another perfect example of the same.. exceptional under water body system going miles n miles..highly sophisticated created by Indians.
The karez system originated in Iran and it's pre Islam and when Muslims conquered Iran they adapted this system and applied it wherever they found it suitable. So keep your bias to yourself and start appreciating the diversity of human race. Off course Indian culture has a lot of original innovations and ideas to share with the world but Karez or Qanat is not one of those.
Yup, Algebra never happened, the qanat system introduced to India never happened, and 'ancient Indians' invented lasers. Typical bhakt.
when are you going to talk about #SaveSoil ? is this something you can promote?
You took the statue and placed it somewhere interesting as a thumbnail. Is that like a click bait picture...
if we redesign all human waste infrastructure from the perspective of it being a commodity rather than waste, the results will be totally different to what we have today,,, in turn this change in our approach will fix a vast amount of our current and future challenges as a species ,,,,,FACT
As I was listening, I was thinking "this sounds like a Qanat", only for you to say it is a Qanat not 1 minute later
This guy goes to most unorthodox locations in India and show water conservation systems that even most Indians are unaware of.
Hope authorities pay attention to his work and help conserve water and save biodiversity and not just spend money of large carnivores like Tigers and Lions.
Tigers and Lions are keystone species and show whether the ecosystem works. And they are almost extinct.
Note, that some parts of India have 1500 mm of rainfall a year, but have colossal water scarcity and even need to import water from other regions due to directing all rainwater to wastewater pipes and rivers, or causing floods.
And clearly, those people (citizens in this video) preferred to shIt into that underground canal instead of using it for the benefit of all.
Humans cause desertification, encroach on all the fertile land left, and hate tigers and lions for no reason other than a lack of their own wisdom.
Said as if he is seprate from the devotees
Technically you can grow more in clay soil, but most our food crops prefer loam. Not sure this water tunnel is a good thing as it does deplete the water table...
They need to implement no-till. Wonder what kind of crimper-roller could be devised that could be pulled behind oxen.
Yooooooo
Your videos are awesome man.
I calculated my co2 emissions its 1.1 tonnes how much is yours?
Bharath as a country has a much greater technology muslims and British only tried to destroyed in which they also succeeded in some regions.
You do realise the Kanez is based on Persian Qanat design that was introduced by muslim rulers? I know you Hindutva are ignorant but could you at least bother googling before posting your political slogans?
Destroy your water bring on the desert
The information density in this video is sadly quite low. Much repetition, no clear goals or plans are formulated. Still wish everyone involved good luck.
Wrong history, these canals or khanas are present long before muslim rulers came to india, muslim rulers don't know this technique that is why they purchase water from india in exchange of gold, muslim rulers never ruled outside the ''delhi'' i.e.(only 15 villages)
Okay muslims didn't know. So tell me how did the Qanat system from Persia was introduced to India by Persianised muslim rulers? Telepathy perhaps?
@@AmNotHere911 Persian kings were not muslims in that time, they were zorastrians statue worshipers, they were friends of our Hindu kings cauze of bussiness n our hindu kings hav given this technology to zoristrian kings n then muslims conqur persia named ''iran'' microminority of persians now also live in india
It's mostly done by Hindus not Muslim rulers
Hello Andrew, a very good day. Job well done, indeed. How can I reach you via email? Regards from Italy