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There's a difference between flowing piped water, which is a technology as old as Rome, and static piped water, something that was figured out only in the 20th
by thrown_22 4y ago
There's a difference between flowing piped water, which is a technology as old as Rome, and static piped water, something that was figured out only in the 20th century.
- notahacker 4y agoWater towers and pumping were not twentieth century technologies (and nor were water closet toilets and sewerage). London had steam-pumped water supply two-hundred years earlier, and those pesky regulators forced every multi-storey building in NYC to have them during the 19th century. Piped water wasn't the future in the 1930s, it was just unevenly distributed.