#bazalgette — Public Fediverse posts

I suppose that the combination of contracting ‘over engineered’ with less refined technologies with more precise lifetimes (where adequate typically means ‘when the current government has been forgotten) has done London a favour. Shame about Westminster though.

And just think how his descendents let this rather impressive Victorian down -

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/15/great-stink-london-heat-drought-sewers

and for people who are interested and they should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bazalgette

#Water #Sewage #London #Engineering #Bazalgette