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Estimates of total water supplied in a day by all aqueducts vary from 520,000 m 3 (140,000,000 US gal) to 1,127,220 m 3 (297,780,000 US gal) [1]: 156-7 [2]: 347 , mostly sourced from the Aniene river and the Apennine Mountains [citation needed], serving a million citizens [citation needed].
Originally the city of Rome's provider, [4] the Acea group is the main national operator in the water sector with a catchment area of about 10 million people, [2] and manages integrated water services—aqueduct, sewerage and purification—that span the territories of Rome and Frosinone, as well as their respective provinces.
Acqua Vergine Antica, which travels underground through some of the same channels constructed by Agrippa's engineers, proceeds into Rome on the northeast under Via di Pietralata, at a point formerly called Fosso Pietralata, crosses Via Nomentana, flows westward toward and through the park of Villa Ada, passes under the western limits of the ...
Water is particularly scarce in Apulia, Basilicata, Sicily and Sardinia, a fact that could be aggravated by the effects of climate change. [12] Many Italian cities receive their drinking water from groundwater and springs. For example, Rome receives 97% of its drinking water from springs and 3% from wells. [13]
At the beginning of the 2nd century BC, the first two aqueducts of Rome (Aqua Appia and Aqua Anio Vetus) had become dilapidated and many illegal diversions [5]: §7 (344-5) decreased the flow so much that in 184 BC the censor Cato the Elder passed laws to remove illegal pipes and supplies to private individuals [6]: 39.44 [2]: 6 .
The video shows the seemingly clueless tourist scaling Rome's historic Trevi Fountain to fill a water bottle, baffling onlookers and security.
The city of Rome began installing nasoni in the 1870s to provide a water supply for citizens. The exact year is not known: sources note both 1872 [5] and 1874 [6] as the first time a nasone was installed. The fountains' design went unchanged for decades. At the peak of their popularity, there were approximately 5,000 nasoni in Rome. [5]
The three-arched Fontana dell'Acqua Felice (designed by Domenico Fontana, 1587) marked the entry of the new water source into Rome, with the conventional mostra or showy terminus: "what makes a fountain a mostra is not essentially its size or splendor, but its specific designation as the fountain that is a public memorial to the whole achievement of the aqueduct."