In the nineteenth century, when the stench of London’s
almost non-existent drains penetrated the perceptions of even the denizens of
the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, right beside the open sewer of the
Thames, the civil engineer Joseph Bazalgette was commissioned to design and
build a huge network of underground sewers. With Victorian efficiency he built
tunnels tall enough for a man to stand upright in, and the system has remained
in use, with routine maintenance, to this day.
However, just recently, there was a serious blockage in
Kensington, where the rich people live, served by expensive fashionable
restaurants. Workers were sent down to investigate and discovered a ten-ton
lump of congealed fat. Comment seems superfluous.
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