Rome's Most Enduring Impact to My World

Ahh, the Romans is there nothing they cannot do?  Roads, arches, aqueducts, indoor plumbing, conquering the world, entertaining the masses with violence and punish law breakers.  What a great empire.
What amazes me the most is the fact that they created an elaborate system of aqueducts.  There aqueduct system in nothing short of an engineering marvel.  Rome had many large cities, but they needed a way to get water to the cities.  Their engineering was so precise because that the water maintained a continuous flow through 260 miles of aqueducts.  The water flowed to large cisterns in towns so the Romans could have baths, indoor plumbing and public fountains.

California has a very similar climate to Italy, the area that ancient Rome inhabited.  We too have an elaborate system of aqueducts that take water from the northern California to more populated areas in southern California.  This morning in fact, I drank water that came from the California aqueduct because the city of San Luis Obispo gets a part of their water supply from the aqueduct.  The fact that we have modern machines to maintain and build our aqueducts further proves that the Romans were ahead of their time.

Sources: 
crystallinks.com
http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-aqueducts.php