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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 Thank you Rome. Because of you We Have aqueducts Background An aqueduct is a water supply or navigable channel constructed to convey water. Aqueducts in the city of Rome Rome had several springs within its perimeter walls but its groundwater was notoriously unpalatable, and water from the Tiber was unsafe to drink. The city's demand for water had probably long exceeded its local supplies when the Aqua Appia, Rome's first aqueduct (312 BC) was commissioned by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus as one of two publicly funded, major projects; the other was a strategic road between Rome and Capua, the first leg of the so-called Appian Way. Before their development of aqueduct technology, Romans, like most of their contemporaries in the ancient world, relied on local water sources such as springs and streams, supplemented by groundwater from privately or publicly owned wells, and by seasonal rain-water drained from rooftops into storage jars and cisterns. Planning, Surveying and Construction Springs were by far the most common sources for aqueduct water; most of Rome's supply came from various springs in the Anio valley and its uplands. Some systems drew water from purpose-built, dammed reservoirs, such as the two (still in use) that supplied the aqueduct at the provincial city of Emerita Augusta. In Book 8 of his De Architectura, Vitruvius describes the need to ensure a constant supply, methods of prospecting, and tests for potable water. Modern aqueducts, although lacking the arched grandeur of those built by the Romans, greatly surpass the earlier ones in length and in the amount of water they can carry. Modern aqueducts Rome had several springs within its perimeter walls but its groundwater was notoriously unpalatable, and water from the Tiber was unsafe to drink. The city's demand for water had probably long exceeded its local supplies when the Aqua Appia, Rome's first aqueduct (312 BC) was commissioned by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus as one of two publicly funded, major projects; the other was a strategic road between Rome and Capua, the first leg of the so-called Appian Way. Planning, Surveying and Construction
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