Hence, there is a crucial need to conserve this cultural heritage to improve community life and the
quality of space, water efficiency and energy efficiency and to reconsider the dying wisdom that had
ensured sustainability. The conservation strategy should be framed in cooperation with stakeholders;
furthermore, there is a need to address the adverse impacts of human activities, such as sanitation,
pollution prevention, increasing demands of population growth and wastewater treatment. The use of
local and traditional knowledge and technology, such “Quanat” and other water systems, should be
encouraged to continue ecologically rooted management practices. New planning frameworks and
development measures need to be formulated that are more sensitive to both culture and nature and
that facilitate a greater recognition of local values and traditional knowledge. To be sustainable, a new
planning framework should accept an indigenous respect for the environment and an approach that is
both holistic and integrative