This thesis is the result of a bachelor study Archaeology of the Near East/Levant at Leiden University. The main subject of this thesis is the study of local irrigation systems in the north of Jordan. An ethnographic survey was executed and interesting information was collected. By studying the way a society operates and man behave it will be possible to find out how man currently manages water and how he uses it for his purpose. The researcher has adopted an approach of looking at the present irrigation systems with the intent to understand how they work nowadays and subsequently, in future studies, use this information to understand how irrigation systems worked in the past, especially when linked to past societies.