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=**Aqueducts**= ==

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Romans build these complicated systems of pipes to carry water from one place to another. Supported by arches, these pipes travel for long distances. Rome uses water from these aqueducts for a variety of reasons, such as irrigating crops, drinking, washing clothes, and bathing.

This is a picture of a famous aqueduct that is still standing in France     called the Pont du guard. The Pont du Guard is over 1000 feet tall and spans for about thirty miles.

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The Modern connection of a Roman Aqueduct is a undergroung aqueduct or an undergroung city water pipe. As seen in picture number two, the water comes from a resivoir, but then, instead of traveling on for many miles inside of an open aqueduct, it travels in an undergroung enclosed water pipe. From there the water gets purified in a water treatment plant, and then pumped to the city.