Qanat Influence On Natural Resource Management

Water has a strong tie to the physical and spiritual wellbeing of humankind (Pälsson, 1990). Regardless of the differences in religion, culture and social norm every person depends on water. Pagan, Christian, Buddha, Islam and other religions have strong connections with water as a spiritual component or means of cleanliness before their God (Abrams, et al., 2000; Groenfedt, 2006 and Chuvieco, 2012). However, through these diversities, and teachings of religions and traditional institutions have direct or indirect influence on perception of natural resources management. Every religion reflects the concept of dominion of man on natural resources – everything is created and given to serve man. Moreover, the ideology of stewardship to protect natural resources and sharing reasonably that preached by the religions or social institutions are not fruitful (Chuvieco, 2012) because resources are over exploited and polluted without considering the future generations.

Qanat, the traditional water extracting and transporting technique, is very common in central and East Asia, morocco and Spain, has a long history. This system is believed to practice before a century (Beaumont, 1989 and Canavas, 2014). The drive of the practices traditional water managements is typically the water shortage. Arid regions where there is poor rainfall distribution have adopted Qanat as a means of survival and whereas dry-wet and semi-aridsregions which have relatively better rainfall in an intermittent way stick to rainwater harvesting practices either by constructing ponds, allowing the runoff percolate to a sand reservoir or other many techniques mentioned in (Akpinar Ferrand, 2014). In any of these cases, the driver is the environment. Those communities in the regions have practiced these for centuries before the modern technologies able to support them and almost it has become part of their