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    The Bisse d'Ayent is a bisse (traditional irrigation channel) in Valais. It takes its source at the Tseuzier reservoir and irrigates vineyards and meadows...
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    rainfall (the inner valleys). The best-known system of channels is that of the bisses in Valais (Suonen in Upper Valais). These are attested since the 11th century...
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