• wischiEnglish
      10·
      4 months ago

      Because it’s simpler to build siphons through large valleys instead of 100 meter high 10 kilometer long aqueducts.

      • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        But you have to keep water pressure throughout the length of that tube, how did they do that with their materials?

        • wischiEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          There is no additional pressure besides from the height/drop, so unless so have a substantial leak where you lose a lot of water, it “just works”.

    • tylerEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      Valley was too deep for the aqueduct but they didn’t want to make the drawing taller just for that