A new aqueduct is to give Rome
water security for the next 100 years, Mayor Virgina Raggi and
ACEA water company told a press conference Monday.
The new pipeline will entail doubling the current Peschiera
aqueduct which currently supplies the Italian capital with 80%
of its water, they said.
The project, which was first mooted 20 years ago, will
hopefully get under way in the spring of 2020, ACEA CEO Stefano
Donnarumma said.
"From that moment it will take at least four years to build
the aqueduct," he said.
Rome was forced to briefly turn off its 'nasoni' street
fountains because of a water sh0rtage this summer.
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