According to the article, "The Need for Water in Ancient Societies," Emperor Claudius completed many essential, rather numerous, public works. Including an aqueduct and drainage of a channel (Lake Fucine and harbor at Ostia). To finish the drainage of the canal, which was three miles long, he had to tunnel a mountain and this took eleven years with 30,000 men.
According to the article, "The Need for Water in Ancient Societies," Shao Xinchen, was an administrator for the people of Nanyang and encouraged farming. He dug canals and ditches, building water gates in many places, expanding irrigated lands. Xinchen also came up with regulations that were, inscribed on stones, for the people on fair distribution of water.
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