Surangas are traditional man-made horizontal caves for water. Kasargod district in Kerala, India is estimated to have 6000 surangs out of which majority are still used for drinking water and irrigation. Though no information is available about history of surngas, they resemble qanats of Iran. Though qanats are thousands of years old, surangs may not older than 1-2 hundred years.
One such suranga is the 250 mts long suranga at Sheni, 35 kms. from Kasargod. It has 7 opening vents which are used as wells. People in the locality are taking our about 10000 lts of water every day apart from water for irrigation. It is interesting to see these seven wells are perfectly aligned in suranga. Undoubtedly people of those times had special skills which have got lost in time.
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