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 𝓼𝓡𝓾𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓰 height. The Romans were/are with us.

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Yeah, these are really great.remember running from well to well to get that sweet cold goodness.

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I think I have been at exactly this one once lol

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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.

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That’s a whole lot of wasted drinking water when a modern drinking fountain would prevent the waste

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Clean drinking water is not a scarcity everywhere. I’m pretty sure Rome would shut these down if that was the case.

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Water treatment still costs something

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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.

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You can fill your bottle from these. I’d mark them along my cycling routes and fill up.

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I didn’t know they still used SPQR in Rome.

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I’m not sure it ever really went away, but Mussolini brought it back into regular use.

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I like everything about this except the way you wrote slurping. It’s so weirdly suggestive lmao

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