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Water Distribution: Pipes brought water into Petra for storage in large cisterns that had been hollowed from the sandstone. Within the city, smaller pipes ran at different levels inside channels carved into the sandstone cliffs to distribute water to all the houses in the city.

Photographed by: Mac McKee
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