1y ago

Rome knows what's up.

These water fountains flow constantly with fresh drinking water for anyone to use and they are everywhere in Rome. Covering the spout with your finger forces the water out a hole on top, creating a arch of water at perfect 𝓼𝓵𝓾𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓰 height. The Romans were/are with us.

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I think I have been at exactly this one once lol
- Possibly - though they do all look alike! IIRC, this one is on Via dei Cappellari, just south of the junction with Via Pellegrino. I was walking away from Campo de Flori when I took this.
Yeah, these are really great.remember running from well to well to get that sweet cold goodness.
I like everything about this except the way you wrote slurping. It's so weirdly suggestive lmao
That's a whole lot of wasted drinking water when a modern drinking fountain would prevent the waste
- Clean drinking water is not a scarcity everywhere. I'm pretty sure Rome would shut these down if that was the case.
  
  Water treatment still costs something
- Egh, a drinking fountain still sucks... better be a water faucet with control if I'm bein' honest
  Then, I can fill up my water.
  
  You can fill your bottle from these. I'd mark them along my cycling routes and fill up.
I didn't know they still used SPQR in Rome.
- I'm not sure it ever really went away, but Mussolini brought it back into regular use.
Wonder what the qr code says

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