Augustus improved Rome’s infrastructure with aqueducts to bring in fresh water and the mighty
Augustus improved Rome’s infrastructure with aqueducts to bring in fresh water and the mighty sewer the Cloaca Maxima……so mighty it even had its own goddess of sewers, Cloacina. Admiral Agrippa’s greatest boat trip was to sail through the sewers to check they were clean. From time to time, the sewers did get blocked and the forum was flooded with sewage. The posh had to hitch up their togas and paddle through poo. The outlet was into the Tiber and fish fed on the waste; they were than caught and eaten by the Romans. Tasty. -- source link