Built some 1,700 years ago by the pre-Hispanic Nazca people of Peru, an ingenious aqueduct system of wood and stone still provides farmers with water to this day. The complex labyrinth of channels and ...

ROME — In a verdant valley east of Rome, Fabrizio Baldi admires a forgotten stretch of a two-tier Roman aqueduct, a stunning example of the emperor Hadrian’s 2nd century drive to divert water from ...

H ave you thought about where the water in your house comes from? If you live in a city, it probably comes from borewells ...

The Aqua Marcia was the longest of Rome’s aqueducts, running nearly 60 miles from its source in the countryside to the heart of the city. It was built between 144 and 140 B.C. by Julius Caesar’s ...

Some resources can be moved from point to point by truck, train, boat or plane. But these options were impossible for the North Slope oil discovered above the Arctic Circle, hundreds of miles from the ...

GARDINER — Town officials have asked New York City to include a tap for possible local water service in its proposal to connect the Catskill and Delaware aqueducts. Town Supervisor Joe Katz said there ...

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 ...

FARGO — One of the most complex challenges engineers had to overcome in designing the Fargo-Moorhead flood diversion project is how to enable the Sheyenne and Maple rivers to cross the channel that ...