Trevi Fountain rescued by mineral water company The estimated €200,000 (£162,200) cost of repairing the facade will be borne by Acqua Claudia, an Italian company that produces around 50m bottles of mineral water a year from natural springs on the shores of Lake Bracciano, a volcanic lake just north of the Italian capital. "My company sells water from Rome and I felt that I could not remain indifferent to the needs of the Trevi Fountain, which is a symbol not only of Rome but of water," said Mauro De Dominicis, an executive from Acqua Claudia. Viewed by millions of tourists a year, the Trevi Fountain was commissioned by Pope Clement XII in 1732 and immortalised in Federico Fellini's 1960 classic film La Dolce Vita, in a scene in which Anita Ekberg wades into its thigh-deep waters. The move comes as cash-strapped Italy increasingly looks to private sponsors to help repair long-neglected monuments and archeological sites. Tod's, the shoe firm, is paying for a £21m restoration of the Colosseum, and a clean-up of Venice's famed Rialto Bridge is to be funded by Diesel, the clothing brand.