What is "qanats"

Usage examples of "qanats".

Raiders from the Broken Lands breached the qanats at Kagga Basin and spilled all of their waters into the sands.

Sandtrout leaped into qanats and shattered to become hosts of small replicas.

As qanats were shattered, Fremen pulled back to the northern and southern lines which once had marked the extent of their holdings.

He talked to the Fremen about water, about dunes anchored by grass, about palmaries filled with date palms, about open qanats flowing across the desert.

Her village had been a poor one, a pioneer venture built far beyond more secure barriers such as the qanats and ring canals of Keen.

She identified the low brick structures that marked the first line of qanats and, beyond them, the enclosed barrel-curve of a surface aqueduct.