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<blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3300896" data-attributes="member: 39593">Move the Water: No magic requiredSince you mention the canyon is a verdant watered jungle I shall exploit the natural site conditions.1.&nbsp; Build a primitive windmill at the top of the canyon wall over where the water exits the cliff to exploit the wind (deserts are very windy places)2.&nbsp; Carve or otherwise shape metal-substitute tree into a primitive pump made from an archimedes pump enclosed in a treetrunk.&nbsp; Link archimedes screw to windmill with leather drive belt.&nbsp; 3.&nbsp; Bore out series of treetrunks with ends that link.&nbsp; Could also cast clay pipe sections with the same basic form.&nbsp; Seal these pipe lengths to the crude pump and secure them to the cliff walls up to the desert floor and insert feed length into the watersource blocking part of flow.&nbsp; The water pressure in the feed should be enough to push it up the closed pipe to the pump.&nbsp; An archimedes screw doesn't make a very good pump but if you enclose it and power it the device would be capable of creating pressure.&nbsp; Which would in turn force the water up the closed pipes some considerable distance.&nbsp; Except for the windmill roughly similar water systems were used in the ancient world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeavenShallBurn, post: 3300896, member: 39593"] [b]Move the Water: No magic required[/b] Since you mention the canyon is a verdant watered jungle I shall exploit the natural site conditions. 1. Build a primitive windmill at the top of the canyon wall over where the water exits the cliff to exploit the wind (deserts are very windy places) 2. Carve or otherwise shape metal-substitute tree into a primitive pump made from an archimedes pump enclosed in a treetrunk. Link archimedes screw to windmill with leather drive belt. 3. Bore out series of treetrunks with ends that link. Could also cast clay pipe sections with the same basic form. Seal these pipe lengths to the crude pump and secure them to the cliff walls up to the desert floor and insert feed length into the watersource blocking part of flow. The water pressure in the feed should be enough to push it up the closed pipe to the pump. An archimedes screw doesn't make a very good pump but if you enclose it and power it the device would be capable of creating pressure. Which would in turn force the water up the closed pipes some considerable distance. Except for the windmill roughly similar water systems were used in the ancient world. [/QUOTE]

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