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WATER AND ITS EVERYDAY USES 



PROBLEM II. WHAT USES DO WE MAKE 

 OF WATER? 



Uses of Water. If you were to make a list of all the 

 ways in which you use water, you would doubtless think of 

 its first uses in the morning for washing your body, clean- 

 ing the teeth, and then drinking at breakfast. Keeping 

 clean is certainly important. If a Roman Emperor 

 wished to become popular with his people, he caused a 

 bathhouse to be built. The Romans took their bathing 

 seriously. They had magnificent bathhouses with hot 

 and cold showers or tubs, and the wealthy Roman lounged 

 away a good part of the day enjoying the various steps 

 of his complicated bath. It was the place where a Roman 

 gentleman sat and gossiped and swapped the day's news, 

 for there were no newspapers. They knew the value 

 of a clean skin, and knew the feeling of exhilaration that 

 came from a cold bath following a warm one. 



A Roman bath in Bath, England. When the Romans invaded England they built 

 baths like the ones they had in Rome. 



