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People still do some maintenance on the 8k year old Afghanistan water system (underground aqueducts) because they are still used today. I’m failing to find some good sources, but when I was there in 2008, it was something the Army Core of Engineers was investigating on my base.


That solves an immediate need though, not a once in a few ten thousand year disaster.


this[1] places them at 3k years old: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat


That sounds more right to me than a memory of some random conversations from nearly 20 years ago.




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