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Project fund by |
European Commission - General Direction of Research - INCO-MED Programme
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Forum
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the drainage tunnels
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Partners of Project: ITALIA - IPOGEA SPAGNA - University of ValenciaDepartment of Geography MAROCCO - University Moulay Ismail ALGERIA
- Ecole Polytechnique TUNISIA - Insitut des Regions Arides
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PROJECT MEETING |
III PROJECT MEETING ADRAR (ALGERIA) 4 - 5 - 6 February 2005 |
Objectives
The general aim is the better understanding of the characteristics and
the functioning of foggaras within European and Maghrebian countries
in order to valorize them both as World Heritage, as the whole of knowledge
and as an efficient way of water production guaranteeing the proper
management of water resources and the ecosystem upkeep. In particular,
in two European countries, in Morocco, in Algeria and in Tunisia research
will rely on theoretical basis and on on-site experimental surveys:
inventory of existing drainage tunnels; analysis of their functioning
and methods of realization; causes of persistence or abandonment; study
on restoration and maintenance methods; potentialities for re-using
and reintroducing foggaras.