We should do as the Romans did with their water supply

A. Trevor Hodge writes about what the Romans considered one of the greatest glories of their civilisation: aqueducts and water supply.

I have just rediscovered a quotation of his which seems curiously apt in the Ireland of today.

“How can we withhold our respect from a water system that, in the first century AD, supplied the city of Rome with substantially more water than was supplied in 1985 to New York City?”