(October 28, 2021 at 4:26 pm)Spongebob Wrote:(October 28, 2021 at 10:08 am)Nomad Wrote: I think the current UK government's ad agency are re-issuing this, given that the tories want to allow water companies release raw sewage into waterways and the sea.
Is one of those waterways the Thames river? Didn't they learn their lesson in the 19th century?
You mean the Great Stink?
Yes and no. They really wanted to remove the stench because it was disgusting and because disease was at that time linked to 'bad air" . So Joseph Bazalgette build these splendid sewers, which remain is use. Got rid of the stench and disease caused by contaminated water. Of course the sewer didn't go to treatment plants or even out to sea. It just went further down the Thames, where the magic of that tidal river flushed it all out to sea.