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 * They greatest achievements in the ancient world.
 * The running water, indoor plumbing and sewer system carrying away diseases from the water in the Empire.
 * The aqueducts were built from stone, brick and the special volcanic cement called pozzuolana.
 * As Roman towns got bigger, in the course of the Roman Republic, it got too hard for the people who lived in the towns to get drinking and washing water.
 * Because raw sewage was draining into the rivers, people who drank river water often got very sick or died.