aqueduct
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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
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
An extension was later completed connecting the aqueduct to the Mono Basin’s creeks, where the city has been diverting water since 1941.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025
Within six years, another pipeline was built to transport water from the aqueduct south to San Diego.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2025
With water siphoned off from the Los Angeles-bound aqueduct, a large farm was under cultivation just outside the camp, providing the mess halls with lettuce, corn, tomatoes, eggplant, string beans, horseradish, and cucumbers.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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