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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think I have been at exactly this one once lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Water treatment still costs something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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