Roman Aqueducts

Rome’s aqueducts started the new age of our water system. They were the ones who created aqueducts to bring fresh water to their city. The water from the Tiber river was dirty, and made the people sick, so the people decided to build aqueducts. In total, they built 11 aqueducts and together, they carried 200 million gallons of water into the city everyday. If you look at a Roman aqueduct, you would think it was straight, and you would wonder how were they able to move the water? The answer is that the aqueduct only needed a small change in slope for the water to flow down. The first aqueduct was called the Aqua Appia and was created by Appius Claudius Caecus. Most of the aqueducts were actually underground, but when they encountered ridges, they built tunnels, when they encountered valleys, they built bridges and a pipe system called the inverted siphon. The aqueducts were a symbol of public interest and civic pride, now they were not just for bringing water into the city. Once the water reached Rome, it flowed into cisterns, tanks for storing water, that were kept on the highest ground. To run the aqueducts, the Romans assigned a curator called the “curator
Communities could now start living further away from a water source because now, they have a water system. Countries and places that are far away from water sources can still survive today because of all the pipes and channels that help transport the water to them. The Romans inspired the idea for running water and were an inspiration to become more clean and hygienic, because instead of using the dirty and contaminated water of the Tiber river, they chose to create the aqueducts. Without the Roman aqueducts, our water ways and systems would be less advanced and perhaps we would have only discovered how to do it much later compared to now. If not for them, our technology would not be based of theirs, and would probably be different, or not created at