{"id":31693,"date":"2025-04-03T05:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T00:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31693"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:31:15","slug":"aqueduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/aqueduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Aqueduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Aqueduct Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Beneath the Rusovce Manor in Bratislava, Slovakia, archaeologists recently uncovered a Roman aqueduct, shedding light on ancient engineering marvels.<\/p>\n<h2>About Aqueduct<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An aqueduct is a <strong>watercourse constructed to carry water <\/strong>from a source to a distribution point far away.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>term <\/strong>aqueduct comes from words <strong>meaning &#8220;to lead water&#8221;<\/strong> in Latin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In modern engineering<\/strong>, <strong>the term<\/strong> aqueduct is <strong>used for any system of pipes, ditches<\/strong>, <strong>canals, tunnels<\/strong>, and other structures<strong> used for this purpose.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The term aqueduct also often refers specifically to a bridge carrying an artificial watercourse.<\/li>\n<li>The earliest aqueducts were also used to transport water for irrigation.<\/li>\n<li>Aqueducts were used in <strong>ancient India, Persia, Assyria<\/strong>, and <strong>Egypt <\/strong>as <strong>early as 700 b.c.e.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Romans<\/strong>, however, are regarded as the <strong>most famous ancient aqueduct builders.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 312 b.c.e. and 230 c.e., the <strong>most complex <\/strong>and <strong>efficient ancient system <\/strong>of aqueducts was <strong>built to supply the city of Rome with water<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Aqueducts have been important particularly for the development of areas with limited direct access to fresh water sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Aqueduct FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the function of the aqueduct?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. An aqueduct is a structure designed to transport water from one place to another, typically over long distances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. The world&#8217;s longest modern aqueduct is located in which country?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. United States (<i>Central Arizona Project Aqueduct<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which ancient civilization is most famous for building aqueducts?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Romans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/indiandefencereview.com\/roman-aqueduct-ancient-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aqueduct is a man-made watercourse designed to transport water from its source to distant distribution points for irrigation, drinking, or industrial use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}