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It is because the name comes from a Latin word (they are Roman structures originally).
Although we normally see 'aqua' as the Latin for water, aqueduct comes from 'aquaeductus' - see the following from the Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com):
from L. aquaeductus "conveyance of water," from aquae, gen. of aqua "water" (see aqua-), + ductus "a leading, conducting," pp. of ducere "to lead".
So because it had both a and e, the word became aqu-E-duct, probably because that more closely represents the Latin sound than aqu-A-duct.
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