as in canal
an open man-made passageway for water
marveled at the ancient Roman aqueducts that still carry water to distant villages
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The aqueduct shuttles water from the Owens River Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada to the city, rather than from the Northern California Bay-Delta.
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Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Dense with visual puns and ending with a narrowboat showdown on an aqueduct that puts the climax of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning to shame, Vengeance Most Fowl is sheer delight.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Image Rome has a plethora of fountains, the public, decorative faces of aqueducts that were originally built by the ancient Romans, but none match the fame of the Fountain of Trevi.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
The rules govern the operations of dams, aqueducts and pumping plants in the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project, two of the world’s largest water systems, which deliver supplies to Central Valley farmlands and about 30 million people.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Dense with visual puns and ending with a narrowboat showdown on an aqueduct that puts the climax of Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning to shame, Vengeance Most Fowl is sheer delight.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Image Rome has a plethora of fountains, the public, decorative faces of aqueducts that were originally built by the ancient Romans, but none match the fame of the Fountain of Trevi.
—Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
The rules govern the operations of dams, aqueducts and pumping plants in the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project, two of the world’s largest water systems, which deliver supplies to Central Valley farmlands and about 30 million people.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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“Aqueduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aqueduct. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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