New York Times

In their day, Rome’s aqueducts — 11 elevated pipelines that carried more than 3,400 gallons of water per second to the ancient capital — stood as the height of public administration, providing the “best water service in the ancient world and perhaps of any era,” in the words of one archaeologist, Filippo Coarelli.

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