00:00The water in the early stages of the baths was apparently not very clean.
00:26It's not surprising because the water was supplied by a water lifting machine so you must imagine there was probably a slave running in a kind of hamster wheel lifting up water buckets and supplying the baths with water.
00:41The building of an aqueduct is something very expensive even at that time and you can compare it to building an airport in modern times.
01:00In Roman time, in early imperial time, the society was getting more richer and people, each city, wanted to have an aqueduct.
01:11You must imagine that the aqueduct of Pompeii was probably fed from the so-called Aqua Augusta and that's a giant aqueduct.
01:26It's about 120 kilometers long running from the Apennines all the way to the Bay of Mycenaeum west of Napoli and it supplied something like 10 cities with water with branches running from that central aqueduct.
01:42Thank you so much for this.
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