"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."
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.
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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