Discover the ancient Roman sewer system, the Cloaca Maxima. Unpack its engineering genius, from marsh drainage to a vast urban sanitation network. Explore ...

Water is essential to every civilisation, but getting a reliable supply of it was once a major engineering challenge. Long before modern pipes, pumps and treatment plants, people developed clever ways ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pre-Hispanic canal funnels water from mountains to farm fields. Ari Caramanica Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time ...

Communities living in Colombia thousands of years ago achieved an engineering wonder of the world based on cooperation among family groups without top-down government, a new study shows.

Santiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver ...

The aqueduct was part of a sophisticated ancient water system that carried spring water from the Gush Etzion area to the ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. WHOI scientists and colleagues sampled wells ...

Evaluate the system's surface water supply. This involves delineating the water basin, assessing the quality of the water, hydrologic modeling, and flooding mitigation. Assess current conditions of ...

The ingenuity of ancient Egyptian engineers may have been even more ahead of their time than we thought. A new study suggests a currently unexplained ancient structure may have been part of a water ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the world. However, the apparent success of this system masks an underlying ...