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homepage Stephen’s survival guide to aqueducts Coliseum, roads, Augustus Caesar,weapons The aqueducts main job was to bring water to the citizens of Rome. They were made of concrete and at a sight angle. There were eleven main aqueducts and the longest one was made over fifty miles long.The aqueducts were used for bringing water to the people, to bring water to the bath houses, and for irrigation. They brought so much water that they could provide one cubic meter of water to each person when the empire was at its height. The Romans used arches to hold the aqueducts one hundred feet above ground. The aqueducts were built between 312A.D. and 122B.C. The aqueducts were so sturdy that some are still used today.