In the 1850’s, the River Thames in London wa...  ...0’s, the River Thames in London was an open sewer , responsible for thousands of deaths annually fro...  ...Bazalgette was to construct 1,100 miles of street sewers with 82 miles of underground brick sewers to inte...

Oh, bother. We've recently discover...  ...bother. We've recently discovered why the sewers of East Kilbride, Scotland, got a bit backed up:...  ...strange things Scottish Water has found in their sewers : a fax machine. Oh, and a pink bicycle....  ...cottish Water, the company in charge of water a...

Toilet not flushing properly? Perhaps you'...  ...shing properly? Perhaps you've got FATBERG in the sewers . That's what happened when residents in a...  ...b of congealed fat and baby wipes had lodged in a sewer drain. That's enough "wrongly flushed fester...

Journalist and social reformer Henry Mayhew wrote...  ...it their living by forcing entry into London’s sewers at low tide and wandering through them, sometimes...  ...swept into the gutters. Mayhew called them “ sewer hunters” or “toshers,” and the latter term...  ...orked the shoreline of the Tham...

An unnamed man in the town of Montmélian, France,...  ...of Montmélian, France, dropped his wallet into a sewer opening in a parking garage and went to retrieve...  ...een siphoning off waste oil from his car into the sewer at the time. Disposing of waste oil in this wa...  ...ing illegal, don't get caught...

The River Fleet in London is a tidal river tha...  ...ew, until it was eventually incorporated into the sewer system. But the river is still there, filling its...

(YouTube link) Workers from the Thames Water...  ...pour grease down the drain, because it clogs the sewers . That message is sing the tune of "Good King Wenc...

The toilet is one of those things we take for granted, until it breaks down or we go somewhere without them. How did our modern comfort system come about? Toilet plumbing is older than you think! Ancient cultures were s...

How many humans does it take to pull a platypus fr...  ...any humans does it take to pull a platypus from a sewer pipe? About 27 were there when the creature was p...

Think your job stinks? Just be thankful you're not...  ...nk your job stinks? Just be thankful you're not a sewer worker in London. Here's what they had to do rece...  ...thing on this scale," said Danny Brackley, a sewer flusher with Thames Water. "We couldn't even...  ...h Thames Water. "We coul...