Lately I have been observing and reflecting about the Roman water found in fountains and depicted in pictures and statues. As I walked through the huge morning market in Campo de’ Fiori the other morning though, I began to look at water in a completely different light. Water is the reason that the market was even possible in the first place. All of the fruit and vegetables for sale – the apples, grapes, cherries, carrots, lettuce, zucchini, oranges, lemons, limes, bananas, watermelon – are all dependent on good old H2O. Not only that, the human body is made up of about 75% water by volume and without it for a prolonged period of time, we would surely die. Thankfully, this vital substance is available on pretty much any corner of the city. The public drinking fountains are so essential, especially in the summer, and I wish more cities provided these heavenly havens. Just when you think it cannot get much hotter, a drink from the ice cold spiket refreshes the body at least for the time being. Water literally surrounds us here in the Eternal City. Stop and take notice of all the different places it can be seen and also of every different place that it has an influence on. Without it, many beautiful pieces of artwork would not exist, not to mention we simply could not survive in its absence.
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