The Roman Empire Civilization: A Brilliant Society

The Roman Empire Civilization was a brilliant society. The people in small villages used the stream or well for fresh water. When the villages become large communities; the need for clean water and the removal of waste became a problem. The political government takes over. The government asked the civil engineers to come up with an idea. The engineers build aqueducts to carry the water from springs and streams. Water travels through different channels to various parts in the communities.

The Roman Empire created something amazing that the humankind in that day and age had never seen nor was this same creativity harnessed again until much later in olden times. The Romans built the Roman Aqueducts which permitted sparkling running water,

This construction was constructed of masonry walls and was located far enough above street level to cause water to run at a reasonable speed by gravity into the city or town's water mains. These water mains were pipes made of a piece of lead or terra cotta. The lead pipes were frequently round or triangular in cross section and shaped from a rectangular sheet of lead. The lead was rolled into a tube or fold into a triangle shape, and the edges soldered as one or folded over, crimped, and soldered collectively. The fountains located on many street corners and water flowed into them by gravity. The surplus water would flow down into another set of pipes to feed other fountains at lower levels throughout the mountain city of Rome. Finally, water would flow from the last in a chain of basins into the cloaca or city sewer system which would then release into a river as manure. It was not the Romans' put into practice to turn the fountains off even though they know how to construct a valve to control the water. Officials in charge of the water supply had seven hundred trained slaves and several civil engineers working for