Strategies of Water Management in Outdoor Space of Sustainable Housing-Water Material Heritage of Historic City of Nineveh

The research addressed the most important lessons learned from the material heritage of water management strategies in housing complexes, as the research thesis emerges from the technical understanding of the local water heritage of the historic city of Nineveh in water management, which developed over the centuries, since it is one of the cities with important water resources of the Tigris River, in addition to the high level of aquifer waters and abundant rain and well waters. This research also sheds the light on the Assyrian heritage of sustainable strategies in water recycling and management in the outdoor spaces of natural and constructed urban spaces, as well as the mechanism of inspiration of these techniques as they are self-sustained and in line with the propositions of sustainability of our time. There are many important questions raised by the study: questions about where the water resources come from to the site and where to go, the source and destination of stagnant water, how to get rainwater, aquifers waters, wells and rivers waters, their evaporation, movement, their graduated appearance and their use on site. All these questions can be answered depending on the calculative experiences of ancient civilizations as an important technical heritage that preceded modern technological development with the self-sustaining mechanism. The research aims at developing a theoretical framework for water management strategies of housing complexes, represented in each of (dominance and control strategy, conservation strategy, sustainability strategy), and to look for the similarities and differences between the material heritage of the ancient city and modern treatments concerning those strategies.