> [!quote] [First pressurized water feature found in New World](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100504155421.htm) by Kirk D. French & Christopher J. Duffy (2010) > One potential use for the artificially engineered water pressure would have been a fountain. The researchers modeled the aqueduct with a fountain as the outlet and found that even during flood conditions, water would flow in the aqueduct, supplying the fountain, and above ground in the channel running off the slope. Another possibility could be to use the pressure to lift water onto the adjacent residential area for use as wastewater disposal.