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 ...

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explores the ancient water management system of lakes and canals from the Chola ...

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 ...

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 ...

From Roman aqueducts to Persian qanats, ancient civilizations mastered water management in ways that still inspire sustainable solutions today. These systems sustained agriculture, urban life, and ...

Professor Lisa Lucero looks at lessons we can learn to manage water systems in the future by examining Maya techniques in her paper "Ancient Maya Reservoirs, Constructed Wetlands, and Future 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. Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire ...