Karez System of Irrigation
- This system of underground vertical shafts in a gently sloping tunnel is built from an upland aquifer to ground level.
- It has its origins in Persia and later spread to Arab and Turkic lands.
- The entire system is a planning and execution of the forces of a watershed.
- The first Karez system in India was built in the city of Bidar of Karnataka during the reign of Bahamani Sultan Ahmad Shah Wali (1422-1436), who shifted the capital from Gulbarga to ....
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