Originally Posted by Carleton Hughes

You bet. Roman plumbers were quite advanced,aqueducts,storage tanks,hot and cold taps,fountains for the common people but the priviledged had running water in their houses and villas with either gravity or pressure-fed systems.

Only problem was the lead piping.

See,Romans used lead in everything,women used white lead face powder,wine and spirits were boiled in leaden pots,many cooking utensils were lead.

Roman society gradually went sterile.