The Irrigation Channel Water is gravity fed to the town, and to each property. Originally only land lower than the top of the channels could be irrigated. The high land was used for houses, sometimes roads, and drying racks. This concrete channel, called Number One, is about 1.8 metres deep and 5 metres wide. The boy beside the channel gives some perspective to this illustration - the empty channel has to be repaired each season. The channel is obviously dangerous for children, as well as wasteful - water leaks out, and evaporates. The channel system has been gradually replaced with an underground pipeline in most of the district (though not the Number One channel, beside our property).

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