Moving the Water - Irrigation and Farming
Before the cities were founded, several nomadic tribes travelled from east to west and back to make trade and exchange tales and to arrange marriages and honour the dead. No crops were grown as the land was dry and none stayed in place to tend fields. Most rivers in Zami Ramal are subterranean and water is drawn up from wells by buckets on chains or ropes.
After a few decades, towns and cities were settled and required food and water for larger numbers. Drawing water from well became very labour intensive and methods were sought to pump water directly to the fields from the wells.
In the year 672, the scholar Kaeleb Solal designed the screw pump, which raised water from the well by means of a corkscrew inside a cylindrical tube, wound by a windmill or a treadmill run by a horse or men. The design worked perfectly and is still in use in Hajdib, Kurata and Akhang-Ahvar for bringing water to the crops from the subterranean rivers and wells. The screw pump is so efficient, it is also used for moving salt and grain and even to move sand out from engulfed areas when buried by the dust storms. The cylinders are usually made of hard-fired clay and the screw mechanism made of iron, skillfully crafted by smiths in Kurata.
Movement of water to fields with such efficiency allowed larger fields to be laid to crops and therefore more people to be fed, thus allowing the cities to expand quickly. Each field owner is required to build and maintain their own pumps, ensuring that there are no leaks and that the water always flows at an even rate. Kaeleb Solal is always honoured by farmers and particularly at the Jawm Al-Nahr, at which time small meetings are often held to discuss improvements and maintenance methods of the pumps.
After a few decades, towns and cities were settled and required food and water for larger numbers. Drawing water from well became very labour intensive and methods were sought to pump water directly to the fields from the wells.
In the year 672, the scholar Kaeleb Solal designed the screw pump, which raised water from the well by means of a corkscrew inside a cylindrical tube, wound by a windmill or a treadmill run by a horse or men. The design worked perfectly and is still in use in Hajdib, Kurata and Akhang-Ahvar for bringing water to the crops from the subterranean rivers and wells. The screw pump is so efficient, it is also used for moving salt and grain and even to move sand out from engulfed areas when buried by the dust storms. The cylinders are usually made of hard-fired clay and the screw mechanism made of iron, skillfully crafted by smiths in Kurata.
Movement of water to fields with such efficiency allowed larger fields to be laid to crops and therefore more people to be fed, thus allowing the cities to expand quickly. Each field owner is required to build and maintain their own pumps, ensuring that there are no leaks and that the water always flows at an even rate. Kaeleb Solal is always honoured by farmers and particularly at the Jawm Al-Nahr, at which time small meetings are often held to discuss improvements and maintenance methods of the pumps.
Growers of crops easily irrigate the whole of the land by means of a certain instrument conceived by Kaeleb Solal of Hajdib, and which gets its name "bhaji" because it has the form of a spiral or screw.
by Photo by Artem Beliaikin
Access & Availability
The pumps are constructed by smiths in Kurata and traded across Zami Ramal, and costs can vary depending upon size and quality.
Complexity
The technology is simple yet extremely efficient. Skilled smiths are required to create the helical screw and craft it to fit exactly into the cylinder but the working are simple.
Discovery
Concieved by Kaeleb Solal, scholar in geometry and son of farmers in Hajdib. Researched in order to improve crop irrigation.
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