I haven’t done it perfectly and don’t expect I ever will. I have fallen behind at times and had to catch up. I’ve burned the midnight oils and had to set my alarm for the wee hours of the morning because I needed to get a post out. But it is always a labor of love. The...
We'll start with the most popular theories about the gardens. They were likely located by the Euphrates River in what is now modern-day Iraq. The gardens didn't actually hang: They draped over the sides of terraces on a brick structure. Some accounts of the gardens claim that they grew ...
Underwater tunnels, too, are surprisingly old. Sometime between 2180 and 2160 BCE, the Babylonians built one of the first known examples by diverting the Euphrates River. The 3,000-foot (900-meter) brick-lined and arch-supported tunnel, which measured 12 feet high by 15 feet wide (4 met...
The authors applied the allocation rules and proposed an innovative way to account for the water contribution of the riparian states; they also proposed a mechanism for weighing the water deficit that they have allocated. In addition, Ref. [23] analyzed the Euphrates River Basin (ERB) with ...