Aqueducts: The Solution to Rome's Water Problems

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Rome’s 1st raised aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in 273 BC; prior to that, citizens residing at higher elevations had to rely on local creeks for their water. If citizens living at higher elevations did not have accessibility to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to depend on the other existing technologies of the time, cisterns that compiled rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that received the water from under ground. Starting in the sixteenth century, a newer system was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean sectors to generate water to Pincian Hill. Pozzi, or manholes, were constructed at regular stretches along the aqueduct’s channel. Though they were originally manufactured to make it possible to service the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi began using the manholes to accumulate water from the channel, commencing when he bought the property in 1543. Apparently, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t enough to meet his needs. That is when he made a decision to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran beneath his residential property.

Outdoor Water Fountains And Public Policy

Outdoor Water Fountains And Public Policy In February 2014, a levy on sugar-sweetened beverages was approved in Berkley, CA, making it the first city in the United States to bring in such a regulation. The objective is to get men and women drinking more water and other natural drinks by elevating the cost of soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks. Research was carried out to ensure that citizens of all races and economic classes had access to clean, working drinking fountains. The research utilized a GPS app to compile data on current water fountains in the city. Demographic data on race and income was then assembled using the US Census database. By cross-referencing the water fountain sites with the demographic information, they were in a position to determine whether access to functioning fountains was class dependent. They were in a position to uncover the demographics of regions surrounding existing fountains, as well as the tidiness and maintenance of fountains across different areas. The tidiness of lots of fountains was found wanting, even if most were functioning.

Water-raising System by Camillo Agrippa

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Water-raising System by Camillo Agrippa Unfortunately, Agrippa’s amazing design for raising water was not cited much after 1588, when Andrea Bacci acknowledged it in public. It could perhaps be that in 1592 when Rome’s most recent conduit, the Acqua Felice, set about supplying the Villa Medici, there was no longer a great deal need for the equipment. Its triumph may have been momentary but the device conceived by Camillo Agrippa was yet unlike anything designed in Italy during the period that split the modern age from classic Rome. Even though there were various other worthwhile water-driven concepts either designed or built during the later part of the sixteenth century, including scenographic water features, giochi d’acqua or water caprices, and musical water fountains, not one were nourished by water like Agrippa’s device.