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Aqueducts Colosseum Roman Army Roman Roads Home Page Aqueducts Sources Augustus Caesar Merchants If you are going to be in Ancient Rome, you should probably know what the main source of water is for the city. The aqueducts were the most advanced plumbing system ever until the 1900’s. The aqueducts had many water outlets, such as public drinking fountains and restrooms. The way the aqueducts worked was that water traveled down through pipes from the mountains. Many houses did not have indoor plumbing, so they went to a public bathhouse. The water ran through conduits lined with concrete and that were large enough that workers could clean it out. Homeowners with indoor plumbing were charged according to the size of the pipe that brought water to their house. The pipes used in distribution were ceramic or made of leather, lead, and wood. Some of the aqueducts were dug through rocks or other canals in the earth. The water is pumped where the gravity in insufficient. Finally, in Rome, 9 aqueducts brought 85 million gallons of water per day. As you can see, the Roman aqueducts are much like modern-day plumbing today. They were a great invention and worked very properly. This is what an ancient Roman aqueduct would look like.