This is a high level overview of Roman civil engineering applied to water works. I wish I knew better the tools and methods they used for surveying distance/elevations and pressure drop/sizing for the various conveyance structures.
Many thanks for your post on this!
My pleasure!
Water Works Through Four Millenia in Turkey
Ünal Öziş
Environmental Processes volume 2, pages 559–573 (2015)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40710-015-0085-3
Rome’s Tremendous Tunnel [100 kilometers long, century to dig it]
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2206315/posts
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2232683/posts
A really great fictional work, Pompeii by Robert Harris, has a hero who is a newly appointed water engineer for Pompeii. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueduct that brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in nine towns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared. Springs are failing for the first time in generations.