How Sewers Work (feat. Fake Poop)

Some fundamental engineering principles behind the safe transport of human waste. Humans are kind of gross. We collectively create a constant stream of waste that threatens city-dwellers with plague and pestilence unless it is safely carried away. Sewers convert that figurative stream into a...

12 min - How Things Work - Practical Engineering

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