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aqueduct

noun as in canal

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When they voted, board members said it’s important to rely less on water transported across the state in aqueducts.

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Turns out the gods didn’t exist, but the aqueducts still worked.

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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.

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The turmoil in Istanbul played out in the shadow of a Roman aqueduct.

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The tunnel would create a second route to transport water to the south side of the Delta, where pumps send it into the aqueducts of the State Water Project and onward to cities and farmland.

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