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→Late Antiquity of Sanitation
One of the most elaborate ancient sewer systems was the <i>Cloaca Maxima</i>, which was a large-scale sewer system built for Rome. It was likely constructed already in the Etruscan period and became more elaborate during the Roman period. The Roman covered what was an initially open-air sewage system into a closed system. The underground system connected public baths and latrines. The system of aqueducts that connected to Rome, where there were seven aqueducts by the 1st century CE, brought freshwater supplies to the city. The elaborate waste removal and freshwater supply to Rome enabled it to grow substantially in size, reaching over one million people, making it the first city to likely reach that size.
In the Near East and Central Asia, qanat sytems, or underground water channels, brought safe drinking water to urban places as well as bringing water to fields. Cities also utilized natural small streams and created artificial channels to wash out waste water away from them.
==Later Periods==
