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Meybod seeks UNESCO status for long being a cradle of watermills and for its cultural evolution of water supply through the millennia, ISNA reported. Meybod Governor Hossein Fallah said on Tuesday ...

According to available data, Meybod embraces 22 historical watermills some of which have been or are to be restored while some are forgotten over time. The double stone watermill of Mohammad-Abad is ...

Urgent restoration is imperative for about 25 Sassanid watermills that have been left unattended for years in the southwestern city, ISNA quoted Mohammad Azarkish as saying on Saturday. Because of ...

In a small Romanian village, Alois Nemecek is not ready to give up grinding grain yet, but he might be one of the last to run a watermill. "The young ones left for work in the Czech Republic, and some ...

CHAKOTHI, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Muhammad Latif never thought he would be washing buses for a living, but he took the job three years ago after shutting down the watermill that had ...

In the wake of modernization, the traditional watermills, gharats, which dotted the river banks of Himachal Pradesh are being revived and upgraded for electricity generation and efficiency. The ...

Despite the advancements in irrigation systems throughout the country, the importance of watermills particularly in rural areas has not faded away completely as 15 such mills were still standing ...