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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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[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think I have been at exactly this one once lol

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Water treatment still costs something

[–] Hextubewontallowme@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

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