Petrash+-+Aquaducts

Petrash Aquaducts home nero aquaducts coliseum roads war merchint The Romans had a problem. How could they get thousands of gallons of fresh, clean water to the city? To solve this problem, the Romans built structures called aqueducts to supply the city with water. 9 of these structures were built, supplying about 4.2 million gallons of water each, a total of 38 million gallons a day. All this water came from mountain streams and melt water. Which was used for fountains, drinking water, bathhouse water, public restroom water, and flooding the coliseum. They were so well built, that some still work today! This is possible because the Romans used arches in their construction. They were made of concert.(which the Romans invented) building the aqueducts wasn’t the only problem that the Romans had to solve to get water. It was the path that the aqueducts took that was the problem. One of the aqueducts had to go through a mountain! Which was done! The Romans had built a tunnel through a mountain! Aqueducts are still used today. They are used in the form of sewers and water lines. But the Romans were above ground. The new ones are not.