Ras el-Ain (6 Kilometers south of Tyre) has been Tyre's main source of water since Phoenician days. Its artesian wells gush up into stone reservoirs that have been maintained through the ages. One of the reservoirs fed the arched aqueducts of the Roman period that once that once stretched all the way to Tyre. Remains of these aqueducts can be seen along the Roman road running under the monumental arch on the necropolis at Area Three. A short stretch of the original aqueduct near the reservoirs continues to serve as part of Tyre's present day waterworks.
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