What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by scribu on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @08:04PM (#16760534)

A sewer pipe that could detect what’s passing through it would actually have all kinds of practical uses!

I wonder how feasible it would be to embed chemical sensors into such an environment.

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by toomanybeersies on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:55AM (#16762187)

Governments sometimes analyse waste water for drugs and drug metabolites. You can't pinpoint specific houses' drug use, but you get get trends and general population data.

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by krtkush on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:51AM (#16762779)

Relevant - http://www.dw.com/en/austrian-woman-poisons-local-water-trea...

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by pbhjpbhj on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:46AM (#16763577)

Targeting action on drugs by monitoring sewerage plants is some sort of genius.

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