Re:India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste
by throw_away_elec on Thursday April 27, 2017 @03:12AM
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>> "Among other things, they contain the world's earliest known system of flush toilets." [1]
>> "With a number of courtyard houses having both a washing platform and a dedicated toilet / waste disposal hole. The toilet holes would be flushed by emptying a jar of water, drawn from the house's central well, through a clay brick pipe and into a shared brick drain" [1]
Amazing. This was about the Indus Valley Civilization in 3300–1300 BCE.
It's interesting to note that how much a civilization, like Rome after the collapse as shown in the below thread, can lose much of cultural or technical advances it made earlier.
>> "With a number of courtyard houses having both a washing platform and a dedicated toilet / waste disposal hole. The toilet holes would be flushed by emptying a jar of water, drawn from the house's central well, through a clay brick pipe and into a shared brick drain" [1]
Amazing. This was about the Indus Valley Civilization in 3300–1300 BCE.
It's interesting to note that how much a civilization, like Rome after the collapse as shown in the below thread, can lose much of cultural or technical advances it made earlier.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_of_the_Indus_Valley...