Syria's capital, Damascus, is suffering from its worst water shortages in years as a result of the lowest rainfall in more than six decades.

THE PULGAS WATER TEMPLE on the San Francisco Peninsula is a visual delight, a Greco-Roman design rising over a reflecting pool surrounded by cypress trees and framed by the green Santa Cruz Mountains.

The spring rises inside the ruins of a Roman temple in the Barada Valley and flows toward Damascus, supplying the city with drinking water for thousands of years. Normally, during the winter flood ...

The spring rises inside the ruins of a Roman temple in the Barada Valley and flows toward Damascus, which it has been supplying with drinking water for thousands of years. Normally, during the ...