Ghouta
The Arab word ghouta or ghûta means simply oasis.
The Ghûta indicates the cultivated grounds which surround the town of Damas and which constitute an oasis in the desert of Syria. The water which irrigates this oasis comes mainly from the Barada, a river which goes down from the Anti Lebanon in a narrow throat. Barada was arranged and its water collected to irrigate all the plain. Remaining water evaporates and infiltrates in the ground of the marshy lake in edge of the desert in the east of Damas, Bahîra `Atayba.
This irrigation work goes back to antiquity. The essence of the water of Barada does not follow its natural course because since antiquity, the Nabatéens, the Araméens and the Romains built and maintained a system collectings to allow the irrigation of the plain thus creating Ghûta. The current extension of the town of Damas sterilizes more and more arable lands around the city. The current absence of new water resource poses a problem for the town of Damas, it is necessary leaves with agriculture its share water of Barada. The projects of water collecting in the Golan were abandoned since the occupation of Golan by Israel in 1973.
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