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the city's confession booth, where everything you flush admits exactly who you are
means An underground pipe or channel that carries away waste water and sewage from buildings and streets.
from From Anglo-Norman 'sewere' and Old French 'esseweur,' meaning a channel that drains water off — built from the Latin pieces 'ex-' (out) and 'aqua' (water), so at its root it literally means 'to lead the water out.' The same watery 'aqua' hides inside 'sewer' as it does in 'aqueduct,' though centuries of plumbing have buried the resemblance.
- fatberg threat
- Grease and wipes congeal into bus-sized underground monsters
- ancient tech
- Rome's Cloaca Maxima still drains streets after 2,500 years
- disease killer
- Sewers saved more lives than most modern medicine
- drug census
- Wastewater testing reveals a city's secret cocaine habits
- crocodile myth
- No alligators, but giant rats are very real
for instance
cloaca maxima — ancient roman sewer built around 600 bce, still partially functional beneath rome
paris catacombs — limestone quarries converted to sewers beneath paris, containing 2 million remains