Lisa J. Lucero (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Lisa J. Lucero

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The Maya built and maintained self-cleaning wetland reservoirs that served urban populations over millennia. U. of I. anthropology professor Lisa Lucero writes that the water-related crises they faced hold lessons for today.

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