AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 12 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW-150006
RESEARCH ARTICLE

The Garden Foggara of Timimoun (Algeria): The Decline  of Hydraulic Heritage

Remini Boualem1* Albergel Jean2 Achour Bachir3
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1 Department of Water and Environmental Sciences, Blida University, Blida, 9000 Algeria
2 IRD Montpellier, French
3 Larhyss Laboratory, Hydraulic Department, Biskra University, Algeria
AJWEP 2015, 12(3), 51–57; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW-150006
Submitted: 4 February 2014 | Revised: 21 May 2015 | Accepted: 21 May 2015 | Published: 18 July 2015
© 2015 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

The foggara has been used for centuries for irrigating gardens of the Timimoun oasis. The most famous  foggara in the region is one that collects water from the Continental Intercalary aquifer (classic foggara). We conducted  five missions (2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014) in the Timimoun oasis to another foggara that is less studied. It  is a small foggara that collects water seepage and leakage of water from the classic foggara. Not exceeding the  1500 metres in length, this foggara is located in the gardens. We call it the garden foggara. In 2010, of the seven  foggaras (operating) recorded, the Zahzaa foggara is the only one remaining and is operating at a low discharge.  But in 2012, this foggara has dried.

Keywords
Foggara
garden
oasis
timimoun
water
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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