Subterranean Design: Qanat Irrigation & Adventure

Hello, nerds!

Those Mexican qanats are
a bit out of controlsville.

All right, you're not all nerds. But if you have any interest at all in the subject to which I am about to link, you may be on the nerdlier side of the coin. I've finally gotten around to a writing assignment Friend Younce handed me back in the spring, and it's up at our joint venture, Subterranean Design. Qanat Irrigation & Adventure explores some of the more exciting design aspects of desert gravity-irrigation techniques.

Okay, I'm going to have to ask you to CALM. DOWN. Get ahold of yourself! It's actually far more interesting than I thought. On a related note: Hey, who's got two thumbs and is a raging nerd...?

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