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• A Nilometer was most likely the first device used for measuring a river’s rise and fall. It consisted of a water chamber with a graduated pillar to measure the depth of the river’s water and predict when floods would occur. One of the oldest structures in Cairo, Egypt is a unique historical Nilometer on Roda (Rawda) Island. While it has been rebuilt and restored numerous times, the basics of the structure date back to 715 AD. • Many Nilometers were used in ancient times along the Nile and several others have also been preserved but the Roda Island building is one of the most picturesque. The use of Nilometers subsided when the first major irrigation project was undertaken around 3100 BC. This project included dams and canals to make the water accessible to the people. • Other old methods of getting water where it was needed were used as well. An irrigation shaduf is a device used by early Egyptians. It was a container made of clay or animal skins that was attached to a lever and counterbalanced by stones. The container was dipped into the river and then usually dumped into a canal that flowed to where it could be used. • Egyptians also used water wheels with clay pots or buckets (called Noria) attached along the circumference. The river’s current turned the wheel. As the buckets or pots were filled they turned around the wheel until they were emptied by gravity into an aqueduct that took the water where it needed to go. • Noria were the first non-human operated lifting devices. While Egyptians developed Noria water wheels there is a lot of historical evidence that the Chinese were using similar methods to move water in their country as well.

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