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Above: Tidal waters flow into khazan (low-lying reclaimed) areas

through pois like this. Top right and alongside, two sluice-gates, one

where water is being released at Molebhat Manos in Talaulim, and

the other controlling the flow of water. Extreme right, the

intricacies of rustic engineering of the yesteryears. It is not known who

designed the earliest khazans and when, yet the Gavdda community

has continued constructing and maintaining khazans for as long as

Goan history has been recorded.