aqueduct
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Fifteen years earlier, he had opened the great aqueduct that carried Sierra snowmelt to the San Fernando Valley and made the metropolis possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Los Angeles draws less water from the valley now than it did in the 1970s, when the city built the second aqueduct.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025
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
The aqueduct is shaped like an upside-down trapezoid, with a steep downslope that abruptly levels off for twenty yards, then slopes upward again.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
Even during periods of low flow, pumps at the southern end of the delta that feed the aqueducts could operate longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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 system of aqueducts and pipelines transports water from the Delta to 27 million people in cities from the Bay Area to San Diego, and to 750,000 acres of farmland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
There’s absolutely no signage on these aqueducts, let alone the fact that I can barely see, now that the sun has practically gone down.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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