need water to survive. Therefore, it is not surprising that water has played an

important role in history. All of the ancient civilizations, including Rome, had to deal

with the problem of a steady water supply. Rome's solutions had both positive and

negative results. At first glance, one would think that Roae would have no problem

supplying water to her people. After all, the city was built on a river. Why would

water have to be brought into the city? There were several reasons: first of all, river

water is not known for its cleanliness. It may do for irrigation, but not for drinking.

Drinking water would either have be drawn up from wells, or brought in to the cities

from pure sources in the mountains. However, digging wells enough for several ten

thousand people is not practical, as wells need to be spaced far apart. Thus, the need

for aqueducts. Bringing water in from the mountains was no simple matter. The

easiest method of transporting water was gravity feed via a sloped channel or pipe.

However, there were hills and valleys which must be crossed. The Roman engineers

this. Its possible to say that the fall of the Roman empire could have been caused by a

simple problem of triangulation. Vetruvius said that each channel "must be leveled

revenue for the imperial coffers, and political power. However, in the end the very

health implications from the aqueducts. Vetruvius described the two most common

overcome these obstacles. First, the rate of descent for

proposed contributing cause of the fall of the Roman Empire. The aqueducts played

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