Little waterfall.

Shallalah Saghirah ('Little Waterfall') is a small village of about 20 households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient ganat system, using a 1,500-year old Byzantine 520 meter water tunnel, as its main source of water. Ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Wessels, Joshka (Director), Musa, Muhammad (Contributor)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Language Notes:	This edition in English and Arabic with English subtitles.
Published:	London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2003.
Series:	Ethnographic video online ; volume 2
Subjects:	Villages > Syria. Water-supply > Syria. Water > Syria. Villages > Syrie. Eau > Approvisionnement > Syrie. Eau > Syrie. Villages. Water. Water-supply. Syria. Online media. Nonfiction films. Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:	Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)

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Summary:	Shallalah Saghirah ('Little Waterfall') is a small village of about 20 households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient ganat system, using a 1,500-year old Byzantine 520 meter water tunnel, as its main source of water. However decades of migration and family conflicts have caused the tunnel's maintenance to be ignored. Muhammad Musa cleans the tunnel to safeguard the water supply. This renovation is part of an applied anthropological action research being implemented by ICARDA.
Item Description:	Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (54 min.).
Playing Time:	00:53:38
Production Credits:	Anthropologist and filmmaker, Joshka Wessels.