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JUST ADD WATER

ATER HAS BEEN bringing movement, sound, life and beauty to gardens ever since they were invented. Lion heads decorate fountains in the 4000-year-old Dendera temple complex in Egypt; water bubbled from basins in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, constructed in about 600BC; and the Romans installed impluviums, or rainwater pools, in the atrium of

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