Cam's Part Rough Draft

pretty much falling asleep right now...here it is...I'll fix it up and have it on the memory stick for tommorow :)

Though aqueducts were never used to carry wastewater, they were closely related to the waste systems in ancient Rome. There were eleven major aqueducts in Rome; each of them carried water of a different quality. The water stood in a barrel after arriving in Rome, in order to get rid of the sediment and visible impurities. The high quality water was used for cooking and consumption, while the water of a lower standard was used for bathing and fountains. In some cases the lowest quality water was used to flush out lavatories and sewers, creating the first toilets, in the most rudimentary sense. The water, after being used for whatever purpose, entered the sewer system called the Cloaco Maxima. These closed sewers emptied mainly into the Tiber River. Though the sewers were very well fabricated, and are actually still intact for the most part, the sewers were not particularly successful. Because they were multiuse, they needed to have many openings for storm water. This meant that a lot of the streets were open to the sewage, defeating the purpose of a closed sewage pipe. Also, a lot of rain water that could have been restored, but instead, it was all mixed with the sewage and dumped back into the river.

http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/rome/

http://www.roman-colosseum.info/roman-architecture/ancient-roman-aqueducts.htm