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To: SunkenCiv

Vesuvius eruption likely damaged the Neapolitan water supply network; nevertheless, the network continued to be used for another decade and a half

Maybe it wasn't damaged per se, but just overtaxed by the spike in population by people who had been living closer to Vesuvius and fled to Naples.

3 posted on 05/18/2016 1:53:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)

To: BenLurkin

invasions, natural disasters, and local administrative and economic collapse

Was it those things or a Saturnain demise from within? Are their any studies on the levels of osseous lead of city dwellers?

8 posted on 05/18/2016 2:29:06 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)

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