Jassim al-Asadi shows visitors the earthen dikes that still line both banks of the river.
This two-day international event will gather a network of global experts in earthen architecture conservation.
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The Israeli army built earthen walls that made ambulance access to the neighborhood impossible, the ICRC said.
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But that, it says, opened up a gap with the earthen base and the water rushed down into the gap.
Instead, Nicholson says, they believe the earthen levees at these two locations failed and their soil washed into nearby neighborhoods.
"The term comes from slavery days, when slaves had to dig holes in the earthen floors of their cabins, " Jones says.
Workers live and sleep in the same low-slung sheds, stepping down into 3-foot-deep trenches dug into the earthen floors to house the looms.
The colloquium will also provide a platform for presenting the achievements that have been made in earthen architecture conservation through the WHEAP Programme.
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UNESCO, as part of the World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme (WHEAP), is organizing an International Colloquium on Conservation of World Heritage Earthen Architecture.
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The Army Corps of Engineers says it believes now the flood walls broke after the earthen levees they were anchored in gave way.
Archaeological excavations brought into light the general plan of the territory, the irrigation system, the suburbs, and the earthen ruins of the towns.
The colloquium will also provide a platform for presenting the achievements that have been made in earthen architecture conservation through the WHEAP Programme (2007-2017).
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Southwest Airlines spokesperson Linda Rutherford said an earthen dam at the end of the runway was interfering with the signal being sent to inbound flights.
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Much of the water is reused, but the industry is producing 1.8m litres of tailings a day which need to be contained in large earthen dams.
This conference, which brought together 240 participants, including experts, professionals and students, was the first international event on earthen architecture in the context of World Heritage.
Coal ash is captured before it can escape at a smoke stack into the air, it's channeled into ponds near the river and contained there by earthen dikes.
Its reported 40-foot earthen wall, rings of air defenses and other security measures are fairly compelling, albeit circumstantial, evidence of the purposes to which it will be put.
Rosie spent life in a custom ranch house in California's wine country and exercised in an airy, sunlit building on an earthen floor covered with clean hulls of rice.
Among the improvements are concrete "splash pads" on the protected sides, meant to prevent the earthen levee from eroding around the base of the concrete flood walls that sit atop them.
As the storm eased, inspectors from the Army Corps of Engineers and parish levee boards went out to check on the earthen walls and have found nothing to raise alarms, said Col.
Cultural landscapes, transboundary sites, thematic programmes dedicated to Marine Heritage, World Heritage Forests, Sustainable Tourism, Earthen Architecture, and Small Island Developing States have all been established to address the specific needs of these sites.
This two-day international event will gather a network of global experts in earthen architecture conservation, including site managers, researchers and specialized institutions, to share knowledge and experiences in conservation of World Heritage earthen architecture.
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Mr. DAVID DANIEL (President, University of Texas, Dallas): 17th Street canal consists of an earthen levee, which is just a long embankment of earth, that has a wall sticking up right in the middle of it.
Held at the midpoint of the WHEAP programme (2007-2017), it offered a critical look at the progress and achievements of the WHEAP programme and presented the diversity of earthen architecture on the World Heritage List.
The concept of the 'henge' was introduced by a man called Thomas Kendrick in 1932 and technically, a henge is a circular earthen bank with a ditch inside it and one or more entrances through the bank.
The city boasts an impressive array of ancient monuments and priceless artefacts, including its striking earthen mosques -- made from mud and wood -- and a vast trove of scholarly manuscripts held in public and private collections.
As a child, I'd imagine what it must have felt like, a few hundred years earlier, coming to Cologne to see this dome and these stained-glass windows even as everyone for miles around lived in earthen huts.
Inca architecture reveals itself here in all of its force with the titanic earthen works which multiplied the platforms, levelled the rocky relief, constructed ramps and stairways and literally sculpted the mountain whose cyclopean constructions appear to be a prolongation of nature.
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