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Describe a Karez in your own words.​

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A karez consists of one or more water tunnels with reinforced walls laid through a water-bearing horizon, as well as vertical ventilation wells and a water tunnel connected to a discharge channel. Karez tunnels can be as much as several kilometers long

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Karez is an underground irrigation tunnel bored horizontally into rock slopes in Baluchistan. It is the system of irrigation by underground tunnels.

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