aqueduct
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Eric Tillemans, DWP’s interim aqueduct manager, told the state board that the city’s studies have found Mono Lake’s levels are “more dependent on precipitation, evaporation and runoff than any other factors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
The turmoil in Istanbul played out in the shadow of a Roman aqueduct.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
Located in the middle of Mexico, Querétaro is a charming and colourful colonial-style city known for its dazzling stone aqueduct.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
Within six years, another pipeline was built to transport water from the aqueduct south to San Diego.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
A toddler gnome poked his head out of an aqueduct only a few feet from the hut.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
He proves as adept at building things as destroying them, and oversees large public works, including sewers, aqueducts and the original Pantheon in Rome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
They were ancient Italy’s first great engineers, ambitious road-builders who drained land for development and showed the Romans how to build their famous aqueducts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
The museum suffered damage, its windows were blown out, but the explosion did not reach the necropolis nor the Roman-era triumphal arch, aqueducts and hippodrome that are also part of the site.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 2026
The Romans built aqueducts because they thought the gods demanded clean water.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2025
“They built aqueducts, roads—” “Siege weapons,” Frank added.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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