Unlike various other parts of the globe where lead pipes create poisoning, the Roman water had a lot calcium in it that a layer of plaque avoided the water getting in touch with the lead itself. Roman lead pipeline engravings supplied details on the owner to avoid water theft. Lead was the favoured product for pipes for many centuries because its malleability made it functional to work into the desired form. Such usage was so usual that the word "plumbing" derives from plumbum, the Latin…