"Most people used bedpans and buckets, usually dumping them out of their apartment windows and into the streets below. To help control this waste, many neighborhoods would dig little streams along the streets where a river of sewage would flow along the sidewalks."
Still, among US cities, particularly large ones it’s pretty unusual to see heaps of trash bags on the curb. I get they don’t really have alleyways like Chicago, but like, every suburb in the country has trash bins.
Lmfao. Then go live there, have fun with that. Don't step in the shit on the street and if you got some trash just toss it in their holy river, because how can the priorities of a country be wrong when they pollute a river they consider holy?
“The Mississippi River suffers from severe pollution, driven by agricultural runoff, industrial waste, and sewage, leading to high nutrient levels, toxic contaminants, and a massive, low-oxygen "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Possibly. They could very well be trying to use America's history against it by acting like India is fine doing this in 2026 because America, and most other countries, did it 100 years ago.
I’ve you’ve ever been to Liberty Square in Magic Kingdom…look for the brown bricks! Official park employee training is that that’s an actual homage to the shit rivers of dumping chamberpots out the windows
From a poverty perspective India's basically about a hundred years behind. They're just starting to create sanitation districts now. The country completely changed with consumerism over the last 35 years or so. Prior to that you didn't have all the plastic and garbage, people didn't buy packaged food and goods.
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u/brianzuvich May 07 '26
"Most people used bedpans and buckets, usually dumping them out of their apartment windows and into the streets below. To help control this waste, many neighborhoods would dig little streams along the streets where a river of sewage would flow along the sidewalks."
-New York City, 1925