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Aqueduct 4.0

Aqueduct 4.0 is the 2023 version of the World Resources Institute's Aqueduct water risk framework, mapping 13 open-data indicators of water quantity, quality, and reputational risk worldwide.

Aqueduct at Castellum Tingitanum

Aqueduct at Castellum Tingitanum: an unnamed Roman aqueduct serving Castellum Tingitanum, modern Chlef (El Asnam, Orléansville), Algeria; cataloged in ROMAQ and Barrington Atlas 30 B4; ancient name unknown.

Aqueduct at Vorgium

Aqueduct at Vorgium: two Gallo-Roman aqueducts (11 km, 1st century; 27 km, from about 180 AD) supplying Vorgium, capital of the Osismes at Carhaix-Plouguer, Finistère, France, with up to 6,000 m³ of water daily.

Aqueduct Bridge (Potomac River)

The Aqueduct Bridge, also called the Potomac or Alexandria Aqueduct, spanned the Potomac between Georgetown and Rosslyn, carrying Chesapeake and Ohio Canal boats to Alexandria from 1843.

Aqueduct east of Djebel Zid

Aqueduct east of Djebel Zid, Pleiades place 315606, a Roman aqueduct near Djebel Zid in northern Tunisia, eastern-most of three aqueducts tied to centuriation north of Segermes, dated 30 BC to AD 640.

Aqueduct of Kavala

The Aqueduct of Kavala, known in Greek as the Kamares, is a two-tiered stone aqueduct about 270 m long at Kavala, Greece, rebuilt by the Ottomans in 1520–1530.

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System (Sistema hidráulico del acueducto del Padre Tembleque), a 48.22 km 16th-century water system in Mexico and Hidalgo states, built 1555–1572 by friar Francisco de Tembleque with indigenous communities; UNESCO World Heritage 2015, with the highest single-level aqueduct arcade (39.65 m).

Aqueduct of Querétaro

The Aqueduct of Querétaro is an 18th-century Spanish colonial aqueduct in Querétaro, Mexico, whose 1,280-meter arcade of 74 stone arches carried spring water to the city's fountains.

Aqueduct of Segovia

The Aqueduct of Segovia (Acueducto de Segovia) is a Roman aqueduct in Segovia, Spain, built under Trajan or Hadrian to carry water from the Frío River.

Aqueduct of the Alhambra

The Aqueduct of the Alhambra is a masonry aqueduct in Granada, Spain, that carries the Acequia Real canal into the Alhambra across the Cuesta de los Chinos ravine.

Aqueduct of Vanvitelli

The Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, also called the Carolino Aqueduct, is an 18th-century aqueduct in Campania, Italy, designed by Luigi Vanvitelli to supply the Royal Palace of Caserta.

Aqueduct Racetrack

Aqueduct Racetrack (the Big A), Queens, New York City's only racetrack, opened 1894, rebuilt 1959, home of the Wood Memorial and winter inner dirt track (1975–2017); final live racing June 28, 2026, with Resorts World casino on site.

Aqueduct south of Djebel Zid

Aqueduct south of Djebel Zid: a Roman aqueduct in northern Tunisia recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer, connected to centuriation north of Segermes, cited to Barrington Atlas 33, near Djebel Sidi Zid (554 m).

Aqueduct supplying Tubusuctu from the northwest

The aqueduct supplying Tubusuctu from the northwest was a Roman water channel, 8 to 12 km long, carrying spring water from Kabylie to the colony of Tubusuctu, Algeria.

Aqueduct west of Djebel Zid

Aqueduct west of Djebel Zid: unnamed Roman aqueduct in Ben Arous Governorate, Tunisia, tied to centuriation north of Segermes; one of three Pleiades-recorded conduits around Djebel Sidi Zid, near the Ksar-Soudane spring-fed waterworks.

Aqueducts of ancient Rome

The aqueducts of ancient Rome were a system of eleven gravity-fed conduits, built between 312 BC and AD 226, supplying the city's fountains, baths, and private consumers.

Aqueducts on the Canal du Midi

The aqueducts on the Canal du Midi are 17th-century structures that carry the canal over rivers, including the Répudre, the first navigable aqueduct in France.

Aqueducts supplying Kourion

Aqueducts supplying Kourion: two Roman conduits, western from Sotira (11 km, 1st century AD) and eastern from Souni (20-22 km, 2nd century), gravity-fed terracotta-pipe lines serving the Cypriot city, its baths, and the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates.

Aqueduto das Águas Livres

The Aqueduto das Águas Livres is a baroque, gravity-fed aqueduct built for Lisbon between 1731 and 1799, crossing the Alcântara valley on 35 stone arches.

Aqueela Zoll

Aqueela Zoll, American actress born 1988 in Redding, California; known as Kirsten in Fighting with My Family (2019), Rachel in FOX's Filthy Rich (2020), and Callan in Dog (2022); also producer-director of Wisdom Goes Viral.

Aquemini

Aquemini (1998) is OutKast's third studio album on LaFace Records, named for Big Boi's Aquarius and André 3000's Gemini signs. It hit #2 on Billboard, went double platinum, earned The Source's first five-mic rating for a Southern rap album, and features live-instrument jam recordings with Raekwon, George Clinton, and Erykah Badu.

Aqueous film-forming foam

Aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) is a fluorinated Class B firefighting foam used since the late 1960s on flammable-liquid fires and now being phased out over its PFAS content.

Aqueous humour

Aqueous humour is the clear fluid filling the eye's anterior and posterior chambers, produced by ciliary processes at 2–3 µL/min, nourishing the avascular cornea and lens, and drained via trabecular and uveoscleral pathways to set intraocular pressure.

Aqueous lithium-ion battery

An aqueous lithium-ion battery (ALIB) is a rechargeable lithium-ion battery using water with dissolved lithium salts instead of flammable organic solvents, proposed in 1994 and aimed at grid-scale storage.

Aqueous processing of NMC cathodes

Aqueous processing of NMC cathodes is the manufacture of lithium-ion battery positive electrodes using water instead of the organic solvent NMP and a non-fluorinated binder instead of PVDF.

Aqueous solution

An aqueous solution, also called a water solution, is a solution in which water is the solvent. Water's polarity lets it dissolve salts, acids, and many other substances.

Aqueous two-phase extraction of single-chirality nanotubes

Aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) of single-chirality nanotubes is a liquid-liquid separation in which single-wall carbon nanotubes partition between PEG and dextran phases, isolating species by chirality, electronic type, and handedness.

Aqueous zinc-iodine battery

An aqueous zinc-iodine battery is a rechargeable, water-based battery using zinc and iodine electrodes, valued for low cost and safety but limited by the polyiodide shuttle effect.

Aqueous zinc–manganese dioxide batteries

Aqueous zinc–manganese dioxide batteries are rechargeable batteries pairing a zinc metal anode with a manganese dioxide cathode in a water-based electrolyte such as zinc sulfate.

Aqueous-phase reforming

Aqueous-phase reforming is a catalytic process converting oxygenated compounds dissolved in liquid water into hydrogen and carbon dioxide over metal catalysts, reported by Cortright, Davda, and Dumesic in 2002.