Sentence examples for aqueduct system from inspiring English sources

The Central Arizona Project is the largest and most expensive aqueduct system in the country.

The aqueduct system in the state of California is by far the longest in the world.

The reservoir stored much of the city's water, carried by an aqueduct system for many miles from upstate.

And every night it must be replenished by pump from either the Croton or the Catskill aqueduct system.

The tower was built in 1872 as part of the Croton Aqueduct system, which had started bringing a dependable supply.

Its southern, eastern, and western portions are surrounded by dozens of stepped agricultural terraces formerly watered by an aqueduct system.

Aqueduct systems hundreds of miles long have been built to supply growing urban areas and crop-irrigation projects.

A longer and more detailed telling of that history — including the construction of the Catskill and Delaware aqueduct systems and the city's two main water-supply tunnels — can be found in David Grann's 2003 article "City of Water".

The water supply of New York City comes from three main aqueduct systems that can deliver about 6.8 billion litres (1.8 billion gallons) of water a day from sources up to 190 km (120 miles) away.

But he said that even if an unexpected tunnel collapse did cut off water without warning, the city could make do until repairs could be completed, primarily by shifting supply to its two other aqueduct systems, the Catskill and the Croton.

I was born in an area of California called the Owens Valley, and the Owens Valley was the site of what was called the California water wars in the 1920s, which was when the city of Los Angeles built their aqueduct systems because they realised they didn't have enough water to make this major metropolis happen, and this dream of manifest destiny, the paradise, the Eden of America, come true.