ABSTRACT
In AD 84, Sextus Julius Frontinus, Roman water administrator proclaimed, “I also lay aside all ideas of any new works . . . the invention of which long-ago reached its limit, and in which I see no hope for further improvement” (Frontinus AD 84; Evans 2000). Two thousand years of public works projects have proven Frontinus wrong, as we have devised civil and environmental infrastructures that exceed the scale, complexity, and expectations of the Roman waterworks.
