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.