 In the days when old Chercos was still a going concern, tending to the land, which over the centuries had been terraced in order to deal with the steepness of the terrain, was carried out in the same way it had been for hundreds of years, with the conservation of the scarce water resource the principal concern.The rules around the sharing of water in that arid land were those established by the Arabs centuries before.Each landowner was allocated a certain day and time of the week during which he could divert water from the common canals onto his land.