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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by chiph on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:27PM (#14205630)
Around 1854.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...

Which about ten years later resulted in the Victorians building over 100 miles of sewers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_sewerage_system

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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by CodeCube on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:49PM (#14205839)
that's only 163 years ago ... that is distressingly recent
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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by ralfd on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:17PM (#14207073)
New York was even later. Paris though began to built sewers in the middle ages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_sewers

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Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste by Pica_soO on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:02PM (#14206958)
You know something, Jon Snow! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLpzHHbFrHY
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