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While the Sumerians were developing canal irrigation , the Harappans were building their own water systems.
How did the Harappans control water?
Harappan water skills
Three kinds of work
1. Check dams
Across small streams
Example:
Gabarbands of Baluchistan
2. Water harvesting
Dams, canals, deep tanks
Example:
Dholavira, in Kachchh
3. Dockyard
Built of burnt bricks
Example:
Lothal
Where
What they built
Foothills of Baluchistan
and nearby regions
Check dams called 'gabarbands'
across small streams, to enhance irrigation
Dholavira
, in Kachchh
A large system for
collecting and storing water
. Water from two nearby streams was led by dams and canals into
deep tanks
of stone and mud-brick, some cut into the solid rock below
Lothal
A
huge dockyard
- a place where boats are loaded and unloaded - built entirely of
burnt bricks
Both civilisations were solving the same problem at the same time - how to control water - each in its own way.
