Show italian aqueduct longest in world the aqueduct building in italy will be when completed the longest in the world though not of the greatest capacity several of the provinces which form the regions known as adulla and basilicata have suffered through the ages from lack of water and their geographical position and geological formation are such that the only remedy lay in bringing water to them from the western side of the apennines A law providing for the construction const of the aqueduct was uns enacted in 1902 and the work was begun in 1905 according to plans prepared by italian engineers tile the undertaking entailed the building of a main aqueduct about miles long iong of which over sixty miles had to be carried through the apennines in tunnels from the main aqueduct spreads a network of subsidiary branches having a total lent len length t 11 of one thousand miles this will voll carry water to five provinces and supply tile alie needs of two and one halt half million milion people compressed air magazine |