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restored pool. Once there were countless such pools and canals around
the city, all used as center of community life and for washing. In the
end, since the water was never changed, they became the source of frequent
plagues and a tremendous health hazard to the entire city's population.
The Soviets finally filled them all in. While doing wonders for the health
of the human population, they destroyed the foodsource of the great storks
that used to live all over the old town, leaving only their long abandoned
nests to appear often as grotesque mounds on roof tops and minarets