To: SunkenCiv; blam
From the description, these sound more like cisterns for storage than wells. Wouldn’t they have taken their water originally from the Indus?
To: colorado tanker
From the description, these sound more like cisterns for storage than wells. Agreed.
14 posted on
04/13/2007 1:58:10 PM PDT by
Gondring
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To: colorado tanker
Wells would be more hygienic, particularly in the environment of a large and rising population. The Indus has a lot of sediment, and meanders through a kinda flat countryside, the channel silts up in unpredictable ways, shallows out.
16 posted on
04/13/2007 7:54:29 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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