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Aqueducts & Public Water
Roman aqueducts, starting with the Aqua Appia (312 BC), bring clean water to cities along carefully surveyed gentle gradients.
Open in the interactive tree →Roman engineers combined surveying, stone arches and lead or ceramic pipes to supply fountains and baths with gravity-fed water. The model of public water supply for whole cities starts here.
Prerequisites
- Irrigation~6000 BC
- Geometry (Euclid)~300 BC
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- Fresh water for everyoneopenPiped public water for whole cities began with Roman aqueducts
Sources
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