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Most Romans didn't have taps at home. They collected water from public fountains fed by the aqueducts.
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Private connections were a privilege of the wealthy; everyone else used the city's many street fountains and basins. The water commissioner Frontinus documented the system in detail.
Source: Frontinus, 'De Aquaeductu,' 78, 103–104.
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