Aqueducts were costly public works, and not all Roman cities necessarily required them. Some cities, such as Pompeii, had their water needs met by wells or public and private cisterns dug beneath ...

Researchers in Spain looking to develop a fresh approach to finding long-lost aqueducts have turned to U.S. Cold War-era satellite imagery. By mining the black-and-white images from the HEXAGON ...

Aqueducts are one of the wonders of the Roman Empire. These graceful structures are not only majestic, but are engineering marvels that survive to this day. In "Construct an Aqueduct," you are ...

The film provides an educational tour of a waterworks facility, explaining how towns obtain and treat water for safe ...

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We asked Aicher, author of "Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome," about the Romans' sophisticated water distribution system, including its elegant aqueducts. Here's what he told us: NOVA ...

A drought lasting more than two years has further exacerbated water deficits in the aqueducts. In Amubri, on the other side of the Telire River in the Bribri Indigenous Territory, the community ...

Four people were killed and about 100 families were left homeless due to a landslide in southern Colombia's Narino ...