what is difference between Persian wheel and karez
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A sāqiyah or saqiya (Arabic: ساقية), also spelled sakia or saqia) is a mechanical water lifting device. It is also called a Persian wheel, tablia, rehat, and in Latin tympanum. ... Because it is not using the power of flowing water, the sāqiyah is different from a noria and any other type of water wheel.
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- Rahat is a type of irrigation that has been used for centuries. It's also known as the Persian wheel because it originated in Persia in the 1970s. It's usually a huge wheel with buckets or containers stacked on the rim. Domestic animals such as cattle, horses, and donkeys rotate it to collect water from the reservoir.
- In Baluchistan, KAREZ refers to an underground irrigation tube excavated horizontally into rock slopes.
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- The Persian wheel is a mechanical water-lifting device that is typically powered by draught animals such as bullocks, buffaloes, or camels. It is used to lift water from open wells or other water sources. In ancient writings, the word Araghatta was used to describe the Persian Wheel in Sanskrit.
- A Karez is a channel of water usually 10 km long, some can be a long as 40 km. It is a system of tunnels that brings water down to Turfan from the mountains in the north.
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