The Minoans used technologies such as wells, cisterns, and aqueducts to manage their water supplies. Its again a combination of shallow aqueducts, open channels, pipes, cisterns, etc. This included adding two reservoirs at the northwestern hills and several new cisterns. The Israelites usually drank water drawn from wells, cisterns or rivers. The fort's ruins consist of palaces, water cisterns, and caves. Rock-cut tombs and the remains of houses, wine-presses, cisterns and silos were also unearthed. The aqueduct connected to the southern side of the baths where it filled 18 cisterns. Residents had to rely on private wells, cisterns or streams for their water. However, on further excavation large Roman cisterns were unearthed. Branches are used to make protective or concealing covers for waterholes and rock cisterns. Baking ovens are outside the buildings, with water being collected from two natural cisterns. In the courtyard are underground water cisterns from this period. Early dwellers invested tremendous energy in building cisterns and systems of water channels. The houses were rather spacious and two large cisterns provided running water to them. Two of these cisterns were within the walls of the main building.