Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Petra' has mentioned 'Water' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system, Petra is also called the "Rose City" because of the colour of the stone from which it is carved. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Importance in antiquity 2 Description 2.1 Water control 2.2 Access routes 2.3 City centre 2.4 Exterior platform 3 Tourism 4 Climate 5 History 5.1 Neolithic 5.2 Bronze Age 5.3 Iron Age Edom 5.4 The emergence of Petra 5.4.1 Petra as "Rekem" 5.4.2 Petra as "Sela" 5.5 Roman period 5.6 Byzantine period 5.7 Crusaders and Mamluks 5.8 19th and 20th centuries 6 Religion 7 UNESCO listing of ancient Petra and Bedouin heritage 8 Issues 9 Conservation 9.1 Conservation of cultural heritage 10 In popular culture 10.1 Literature 10.2 Plays 10.3 Films 10.4 Television 10.5 Music and musical videos 10.6 Video games 11 3D documentation 12 Gallery 13 See also 14 References 15 External links | WIKI |
| Water control[edit] | WIKI |
| The area is visited by flash floods, but archaeological evidence shows that the Nabataeans controlled these floods by the use of dams, cisterns and water conduits. | WIKI |
| These innovations stored water for prolonged periods of drought and enabled the city to prosper from its sale. | WIKI |
| The Nabataeans were one among several nomadic Bedouin tribes that roamed the Arabian Desert and moved with their herds to wherever they could find pasture and water. | WIKI |
| In 363, an earthquake destroyed many buildings and crippled the vital water management system. | WIKI |
| He explained that the local folklore says it was created by the wand of Moses, when he struck the rock to bring forth water for the Israelites. | WIKI |
| Hammond believed the carved channels deep within the walls and ground were made from ceramic pipes that once fed water for the city, from rock-cut systems on the canyon rim. | WIKI |
| According to Arab tradition, Petra is the spot where Musa (Moses) struck a rock with his staff and water came forth, and where Moses' brother, Harun (Aaron), is buried, at Mount Hor, known today as Jabal Haroun or Mount Aaron. | WIKI |
| A central issue is the management of water impacting the built heritage and the rock hewn facades. | WIKI |
| An ingenious water management system allowed extensive settlement of an essentially arid area during the Nabataean, Roman and Byzantine periods. | UNESCO |
| The entrance approach and the settlement itself were made possible by the creative genius of the extensive water distribution and storage system. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): The serried rows of numerous rock-cut tombs reflecting architectural influences from the Assyrians through to monumental Hellenistic; the sacrificial and other religious high places including on Jebels Madbah, M'eisrah, Khubtha, Habis and Al Madras; the remains of the extensive water engineering system, city walls and freestanding temples; garden terraces; funerary stelae and inscriptions together with the outlying caravan staging posts on the approaches from the north (Barid or Little Petra) and south (Sabra) also containing tombs, temples, water cisterns and reservoirs are an outstanding testament to the now lost Nabataean civilization of the fourth century BC to the first century AD. | UNESCO |
| The remnants of the diversion dam, Muthlim tunnel, water channels, aqueducts, reservoirs and cisterns are an outstanding example of water engineering dating from the first centuries BC to AD. | UNESCO |
| A new sewerage treatment plant has been provided within the property to the north with the recycled water being used for an adjacent drip irrigation farming project. | UNESCO |
| Regulations and policies developed under the Petra Archaeological Park Operating Plan will cover infrastructure projects undertaken by the PRA including electrification of the Petra Archaeological Park and works associated with water recycling farming projects including tree-planting. | UNESCO |