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An aqueduct is a water supply or navigable channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another. The Ancient Roman aqueducts are among the greatest engineering feats of the ancient world. Vitruvius and Frontinus helped plan the aqueducts. Chrobates were tools used to level terrain before construction. Gromas were tools to measure the right angles. Many aqueducts were used to supply industrial sites. They usually consisted of an open channel dug into the ground. With the fall of the roman empire, although some of the aqueducts were deliberately cut by enemies, many more fell into disuse from the lack of an organized maintenance system. The massive masonry aqueducts and the many other visible remains were to inspire architects and engineers. In modern times the largest aqueducts of all have been built in the [|United States] to supply that country's biggest cities. The [|Catskill Aqueduct] carries water to [|New York] over a distance of 120 miles (190 km), but it is dwarfed by aqueducts in the [|far west] of the country, most notably the [|Colorado River Aqueduct], which supplies the [|Los Angeles] area with water from the [|Colorado River] nearly 250 miles (400 km) to the east, and the 444 mile (714.5 km) [|California Aqueduct] which runs from the Sacramento Delta to Lake Perris.

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