tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163876234969175446.post886173318857836226..comments2023-11-05T10:39:59.374+02:00Comments on Land and People: Yemen farmingRami Zuraykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14644937988631864952noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4163876234969175446.post-8803447507300334902008-07-18T02:12:00.000+03:002008-07-18T02:12:00.000+03:00I just read an article about the asequias of New M...I just read an article about the asequias of New Mexico - centuries-old irrigation ditches dug by hand, from the ARabic word for canal:<BR/><BR/>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/ditches.html<BR/><BR/>the magazine was six years old and I was reading it at chemo today. I tore out the article to mail to you but it's online. Beautiful piece about the water sharing practices of the Hispanic families of New Mexico. Permaculture has taken this idea it seems. THe article did not say whether the practice came to the Spanish via the Arabs - only that the word is Arabic.<BR/><BR/>Reminds me of the Yemenite hydrology you're talking about above.Leila Abu-Sabahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161833022292457787noreply@blogger.com