AICHER: Not much. The Romans did use lead in their pipes. However, two things about the Roman water supply mitigated the unhealthy effects of lead. The first is that the water in the Roman ...

They can fill buckets with silt or chipped-out calcium deposits left behind from hard water and then haul the buckets out. Pressurized pipe (inverted siphon) When faced with a deep valley ...

Archaeologists excavating the historic Rusovce Mansion found an ancient Roman water pipe, a first-of-its-kind find for Slovakia, photos show. Photo from the University of Trnava Digging into the ...

The Slovak aqueduct joins a host of other famed Roman water systems that are testament to the empire’s engineering prowess, among them the Segovia Aqueduct in Spain and the Aqua Appia in Rome.