What Happens After You Flush?
Humans have always peed and pooped, but where it goes after we've done our business has changed a lot. In fact: The water you just drank may well have been a part of someone's urine just...
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The year is 1858. The city is London. An oppressive heat wave is scorching the city’s two-and-a-half million residents, and the Thames River, where for centuries Londoners have disposed of their waste, begins to stink. BAD, like really bad. Water levels drop as raw sewage bakes in the sun, casting a fetid smell so powerful that it’s said to strike men down. It would go down in history as The Big Stink, all three of those words capitalized. And as unpleasant as it was, it’s remembered today as a tipping point of sorts that eventually ushered in the age of modern sewage treatment. Humans have always peed and pooped, of course. But where it goes after we’ve done our business has changed a lot, especially in the last 160 years. Point of fact: The water you...
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The year is 1858. The city is London. An oppressive heat wave is scorching the city’s two-and-a-half million residents, and the Thames River, where for centuries Londoners have disposed of their waste, begins to stink. BAD, like really bad. Water levels drop as raw sewage bakes in the sun, casting a fetid smell so powerful that it’s said to strike men down. It would go down in history as The Big Stink, all three of those words capitalized. And as unpleasant as it was, it’s remembered today as a tipping point of sorts that eventually ushered in the age of modern sewage treatment. Humans have always peed and pooped, of course. But where it goes after we’ve done our business has changed a lot, especially in the last 160 years. Point of fact: The water you...
