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🇮🇩 Indonesia · Hydraulic works
Warmadewa to Majapahit to colonial (9th–20th c.) · Balinese Hindu Dharma (Shaiva–Water, Tri Hita Karana) with Buddhist layer
9th-c. 1200-km canal 19,500 ha terraces coordinated by water temples (Ulun Danu–Jatiluwih–Pakerisan), Tri Hita Karana.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Hydraulic works
Anuradhapura period (400 BCE – 10th c. CE) · Anuradhapura Sinhalese (Sinhala hydraulic civilisation)
400 BCE 350-ha 3.8 Mm³ tank with Bisokotuwa sluice — world's earliest valve 3rd c. BCE.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Han to Qing (2nd c. BCE – 19th c. CE) · Han Chinese, Turkic Uyghur, Gaochang Tokharian, Hui
Tianshan 5,000-km 1784-karez gravity snow-melt system below sea level Han–present.