Al-Naoor or waterwheel is a wooden wheel consisting of twenty-four columns of wooden sticks and carrying and carrying twenty-four clay jugs attached to the outer circumference and used as a tool to transport water to land on the banks of the Euphrates River in Iraq. The waterwheel is a source of livelihood for many of the local craftsmen who make it.
The knowledge and skills associated with its manufacture are passed on through families and through formal education.

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Traditional Craft Skills and Arts of Al-Naoor was inscribed in 2021 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Iraq.