First experiment: it started with the mountainous town of Barqa, whereby its residents joined together to construct reservoirs from cement in order to collect rain water and reclaim converting arid land into gardens of apples, cherries and almonds.
“Create 39 artificial MAN-MADE lakes to collect excess winter water along the plains in the northern Bekaa“
When they thought about expending it, they were hit by the high costs until a solution was developed by the U.S. development agency for the villages of Barka, Bechwet , Btedhi , and Moursel , outlining new technologies to collect and preserve water through plastic covers reaching ten thousands of cubic meters collected from winter rains and are used through a network of modern drip irrigation systems.
