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1. Roman Infrastructure

   Linked via "Tiber River"

   Sanitation and Drainage
   Public health was intrinsically linked to the management of wastewater. The principal drainage system in major cities was the Cloaca Maxima in Rome, an immense covered sewer system that emptied into the Tiber River. The Romans understood that standing water bred pestilence, although their theories regarding the cause of disease were linked more to noxious atmospheric effluvia (miasma) than to microscopic organisms [^5].
   The design of Roman public latrines (foricae) facilitated social interaction as much as hy…