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The Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System channels the Karun River through dams, bridges, tunnels, canals and mills in an integrated landscape of water engineering.

A river engineered as a system

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The idea in context

At Shushtar in Iran, water is diverted, divided, accelerated through tunnels and sent cascading into a downstream basin by works built and altered across many centuries. Channels served irrigation, urban supply and water-powered industry; bridges could also act as dams. The system works through sequence and gradient: a gate prepares the flow for a tunnel, a tunnel drives a mill, and each structure conditions the water received by the next.

Türkçe

Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Şuştar Tarihi Su Sistemi, Karun Nehri'ni barajlar, köprüler, tüneller, kanallar ve değirmenlerden geçirerek bütünleşik bir su mühendisliği peyzajına dönüştürür.
Bir sistem olarak tasarlanmış nehir

İran'daki Şuştar'da su, yüzyıllar boyunca inşa edilip değiştirilen yapılarla yönlendirilir, bölünür, tünellerde hız kazanır ve aşağı havzaya çağlayanlar hâlinde dökülür. Kanallar sulamaya, kentsel su teminine ve su gücüyle üretime hizmet eder; köprüler aynı zamanda baraj işlevi görebilir. Sistem, sıra ve eğim sayesinde çalışır: kapak suyu tünele hazırlar, tünel değirmeni döndürür, her yapı da kendinden sonrakine ulaşan akışı biçimlendirir.

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