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 Institutions supporting the conference

The conference is supported and funded by a number of international governmental and non-governmental organizations and agencies. These include: 

UNESCO ASPnet regional office Amman

  • UNESCO ASPnet Hq and participating national commissions
  • Life-Link Friendship-Schools 1987 1987 Association
  • Swedish International Development Cooperation
     Agency
  • Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Folke Bernadotte Academy)
  • Participating Schools delegations funding their own travel expenditures
  • Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, College of Archaeology , Tourism and Hotel Management/Petra
  • Jordan-German University
  • UNESCO ASPnet, H.Q., Paris
  • UNESCO ESD Section, H.Q., Paris
  • Participating UNESCO National Commissions- UNESCO Office, Qatar.
The Nabataeans greatest accomplishment was probably their system of water management. They developed a system to collect rainwater using water channels, pipes, and underground cisterns. Added to this, they developed very strong, waterproof cement, some of which is still in existence to this day.
Throughout the city of Petraare hundreds of underground water cisterns. Every possible drop of rainwater, as well as the water piped into the city was stored and used late
 Along the left hand side of the siq, a covered water channel used to bring water from the spring in Wadi Musa into the center of Petra
Along the right hand side of the siq, clay water pipes brought water into the city.

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