A little over 2,000 years ago, many of the Maya were on the move. They abandoned the eroded and deforested low-lying land on the Yucatan peninsula – probably because of a bad drought – and headed to hillier elevations in what is now modern-day central Guatemala, according to Vernon L. Scarborough, an anthropologist at the […]
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A Mayan Water Storage System With Lessons for Today
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10 Most Impressive Ancient Aqueducts
By admin on April 1, 2011 in green technology, GREY WATER, GREYWATER, irrigation, JOJO, JOJO WATER TANKS, RAINWATER, RAINWATER HARVESTING, RAINWATER SYSTEMS, SOLAR ENERGY, SUSTAINABLE, TANK STANDS, transporting water, WATER, water canal system, WATER CONSERVATION, WATER SYSTEMS, WATER TANK, water tanks, water technology, YES SOLAR
The word aqueduct derives from the Latin words aqua meaning water and ducere meaning to lead. An aqueduct is therefore best described as an artificially structure such as a channel, tunnel, or ditch, that is used to transport water from a remote location to another. The very first aqueducts were constructed by ancient civilizations such […]
Five Ingenious Ways Humans Move Water
Sometimes it’s not the lack of water that causes problems but the difficulties in reaching the nearest water source that can send societies scrounging. But for centuries, inventive city planners have found ways to work around that challenge, moving mass amounts of water over incredible distances. Read on to see some of the most brilliant […]

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