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Q: How did the people of ancient Petra collect water?
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Where did the people get water from in ancient Greece?

In Ancient Greece, they would collect small amounts from rain water, but would get most water from lakes and rivers, using aqueducts to bring it to them.


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Ancient Egyptians used Shadufs when farming. They used them to collect water from canals and rivers to water crops.


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Petra is an ancient city in Jordan that has half built and half carved into rock walls. It had a system of cisterns and tunnels for irrigation of water that was collected and later used.


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The way england and america do


What does people use the barrel cactus for?

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What song is in the 2009 car commercial where people are in costume as grass water and the sun?

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Do people collect water from clouds?

Collecting water from clouds would be done by waiting for it to rain. However, there are places in the world that collect water from fog. They place fine mesh nets in areas where there is dense fog and then collect the water that condenses off of the nets.


How do people obtain water from an aquifer?

they drill a well. Or collect water from naturally occurring springs


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people take a bath in the Nile river and the dirt or thing that have chemical in it flow with the river Nile and the water flow into a sea and people collect water and some can collect the chemical.


How were levers used in ancient times?

Yes, The Shaduf was used. A Shaduf is what the Egyptians used to collect water.


How did the environment influence the occupations of people in ancient India?

Ancient India depended on their water surroundings because they had to drink water from the water wells/waterholes.


Is it a crime to collect rainwater?

No. For centuries people collected rainwater as a source for drinking water. Some people still do.