 
The aqueduct channel to the desert fort Herodion found its start at
 the Solomon's Pools (nrs 1 - 10 and 60 - 67). There must have been a
 second aqueduct from 'Ain Urtas towards the orchards of the St. 
Chariton Monastery, built on the lifts of the Nehal Teqoa in the Judean Desert.