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Before we start, I have a question: What is the source of life?Obviously it i...
Before we start, I have a question: What is the source of life?Obviously it is water. Whether it is life or entertainment, through the inseparable water. In the ancient Rome, due to years of war, the water source near the city was polluted, and the unpolluted water was far away from the city, but in the absence of electricity-driven conditions in ancient Rome, how to transport large amounts of clean fresh water over long distances?The answer is the aqueductsSo, what is the Aqueducts?In 312 BCE, the Romans used gravity and siphons to get water over obstacles through inverted siphons. The water flowed downward by gravity, causing the weight of the water to increase, which in turn generated enough pressure to push him upward, able to reach the same height as the starting point, and then transported the water to the sub-pools, which flowed through the pipes to all parts of the city.The promotion of aqueducts has given rise to many aquatic innovations, such as public toilets, underground sewage systems, fountains and public baths, and so on.The invention of aqueducts greatly solved the water problems of the Romans, not only by enriching the daily recreation of the people, but also by improving the public health and sanitation of the city.Its importance and convenience led to hundreds of aqueducts throughout the empire, some of them as long as 60 miles, and it is amazing that some of them are still functioning today, including the famous Trevi Fountain in Rome, which is the source of one of the eleven large aqueducts in ancient Rome, the Aqua Virgo.
