Roman Water System

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=82 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#33CCFF" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B>Seven  Creeks  Roadside  Spring Water</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Seven Creeks Roadside Spring Water"><B>home</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id427.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health "><B><IMG SRC="0720e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>    </B><A HREF="id432.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Chlorinated water"><B><IMG SRC="0710e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id434.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Disinfection Byproducts"><B><IMG SRC="0730e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#111111" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <I>Roman Water System</I></div> <div> Too bad early planners of our water systems did not give serious consideration to what the ancient ones knew.   As we learn more about the effects of very minute amounts of contamination and what is removed during water treatment, we may find it would have been wise to keep drinking water separate from other water uses now, as it was then. </div> <bR> <div> From the <A HREF="id21_other.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact/Links">Farm and Dairy</A>: Water, quality was issue in ancient Rome</div> <bR> <div> TORONTO Can the great technological feats of the early Romans still inform urban planning today? University of Toronto professor of classics Christer Bruun believes they can in the area of water conservation. Ahead of its time. Bruun, who has been studying the ancient water systems of Italy and the Roman empire in the eras spanning 300 B.C. to the 1600s, says the many aqueducts built to transport water to Rome were technological and environmental marvels even by today's standards. "The Romans were master builders and administrators and they managed to bring water into a city of over 1 million people from sources as far as 90 kilometers away," said Bruun, who is currently editing a book on historic water technologies. The Romans separated highquality water used for drinking and cooking from water for flushing sewers by accessing different sources. No water separation. "In much of the world today, including Canada, we still don't separate water according to quality so what we use to flush our toilets is of the same high quality as the water we drink." Bruun also believes the clean mountain water used in many of the aqueducts in Rome was high in calcium which, over time, created a protective coating inside the lead pipes. "This mineral coating may have protected much of the population from lead poisoning."' he said.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>