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Since ancient times the water supply was a resource requiring preliminary planning as water procurement in arid areas was no less than a real engineering achievement that necessitated attention to detail at varying levels of complexity before and during execution. Ancient structures like water canals, wells, and aqueducts still look wondrous even nowadays.
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Katsap, A., Silverman, F.L. (2016). Well, Waterhole, and Tent. In: Ethnomathematics of Negev Bedouins’ Existence in Forms, Symbols and Geometric Patterns. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-950-0_9
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