What did the Romans do for us? Aqueducts and the art of Roman water management

Research published here today in Scientific Reports by Dr. Gül Sürmelihindi finds that carbonate deposits formed in Roman aqueducts provide a window onto the environment and water management in antiquity. In this paper the researchers, including Professor Andrew Wilson, present a discovery from the aqueduct of Divona (Cahors, France) where exceptionally well preserved multiple periodic cleaning traces in aqueduct carbonate deposits are documented as a first example where the periodicity of cleaning in an urban water supply aqueduct can be established.

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