aqueduct
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Fencing exists along the aqueduct and MWD facilities “to prevent unauthorized access,” and signage warns about the dangers of entering the canal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
They were drilled decades ago, many of them when the city opened a second giant pipeline, nearly doubling its famous aqueduct to send more water south.
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
At the base of the aqueduct, the First and Second Cohorts were trying to encircle Polybotes, but they were taking a pounding.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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
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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