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This document provides a brief history of ancient water supply techniques for urban areas from earliest civilizations through Roman times. It discusses how all water sources like rivers, lakes, springs, and rainwater were exploited starting in earliest civilizations. Water transfer relied on aqueducts from higher altitudes since no large-scale lifting existed. Cisterns for rainwater and wells for groundwater were developed in the Bronze Age. Greeks and Romans later achieved high levels of water supply techn
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- toza vitaminoza
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- EN