Global water crisis intensifies as climate change, population growth, and mismanagement deplete freshwater supplies ...

At the very least, it's been one of history's most important rivers, rivaled only by the Tigris, Euphrates, and Indus Rivers for significance ... The Susquehanna River Basin protects many of the ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...

The importance of working together was the central message of a panel discussion about water management in the West on Saturday at the Yakima Valley Museum. The event focused on the history of the ...

A large network of ancient irrigation canals has been discovered in Iraq’s Eridu region, dating back over 3,000 years. The system, with over 200 major canals and 4,000 smaller ones, was used to ...

Federal funding freezes and staffing cuts are setting off alarms about the future of the Colorado River, a critical artery that supplies water to some 40 million people in 30 tribes and seven ...

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Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, history’s first city. The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region, which was ...

Columns with Corinthian capitals form part of the decorations. Spandrels on the side have images representing the rivers of the conquered Parthians, including the Tigris and Euphrates.

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide. Fired clay brick stamped with the name ...