The first plumbing and flush toilets in the US, as well as Atlanta In the mid-19th century, with the explosive growth of urban populations in the United States and scientists’ discoveries about the existence of germs and bacteria, the era of plumbing, toilets and bathrooms in the United States began. By the late 19th […]
Water, plumbing and sewage in people’s lives Before plumbing and sewage, before irrigation, before anything else, is water. Water is vital to human life. The first major human settlements invariably arose near a constant source of fresh water, such as rivers and lakes. Seven thousand years before Christ, people began digging wells. Over the millennia […]