Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Water Supply and Sanitation
- Various methods
- ground water from wells
- rainwater collected from buckets
- Abundance in sanitary provisions
- Wells
- Geological substrata
- Increases difficult of reaching water
- hence, small no. of wells in Pompeii
- deadly gas in Pompeii
- easy for Herculaneum (8-10 m depth)
- rainwater collected in atrium
- rainwater on roof
- fell through decorated compluvium
- stored into impulvium
- led to subterranean cistern
- Water pipe system
- castellum aquae, main water distribution
center
- water brought by aqueduct
- Steepness of hills aided in water transportation
- pipes went through baths, reservoirs, fountains
- Even to private houses
- Sanitation
- Public and private toilets
- Used sponges
- bucket of water
- built in niches to avoid
too much water use
- Led to cesspits