Your Outdoor Living Area: A Great Place for a Garden Fountain

Your Outdoor Living Area: A Great Place for a Garden Fountain You can enhance your outdoor space by adding a wall fountain or an outdoor garden water feature to your property or gardening project. Contemporary designers and fountain builders alike use historical fountains and water features to shape their creations. As such, the effect of integrating one of these to your home decor binds it to past times. The benefit of having a garden fountain extends beyond its beauty as it also attracts birds and other wildlife, in addition to harmonizing the ecosystem with the water and moisture it releases into the atmosphere. Flying, irritating insects, for instance, are frightened off by the birds congregating near the fountain or birdbath. Outdoor Living Area: Great Place Garden Fountain 833927650571.jpg

Outdoor Living Area: Great Place Garden Fountain 833927650571.jpg

Wall fountains are a good option if your yard is small because they do not need much space in comparison to a spouting or cascading fountain. Either a stand-alone fountain with an even back and an attached basin set against a fence or a wall, or a wall-mounted style which is self-contained and hangs on a wall, are some of the options from which you can choose. Both a fountain mask placed on the existing wall as well as a basin located at the bottom to collect the water are necessary if you wish to add a fountain. Since the plumbing and masonry work is extensive to complete this type of job, you should hire a specialist to do it rather than attempt to do it alone.

Water Transport Solutions in Historic Rome

Water Transport Solutions in Historic Rome Rome’s first elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in 273 BC; before that, citizens living at higher elevations had to rely on local springs for their water. Throughout this period, there were only two other innovations capable of delivering water to high areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which amassed rainwater. In the very early 16th century, the city began to use the water that ran underground through Acqua Vergine to provide drinking water to Pincian Hill. Pozzi, or manholes, were constructed at regular stretches along the aqueduct’s channel. Though they were initially developed to make it possible to service the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi started out using the manholes to gather water from the channel, starting when he purchased the property in 1543. The cistern he had constructed to gather rainwater wasn’t satisfactory to meet his water specifications. By using an opening to the aqueduct that ran below his property, he was able to meet his water desires.