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Water feature
In
landscape architecture
and
garden design
, a
water feature
is one or more items from a range of
fountains
, pools,
ponds
,
cascades
,
waterfalls
, and
streams
. Before the 18th century they were usually powered by gravity, though the famous
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
are described by
Strabo
as supplied by an
Archimedean screw
. Other examples were supplied with water using
hydraulic rams
.
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