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• - Photos, materials, documents, and links on the development of sewage conveyance and treatment systems over the past 5500 years.
  
• - Historical account on the role of water closets (toilets) and sewage treatment in human hygiene, from Babylon to modern times.
  
• - History of wastewater treatment in Lynn, Massachusetts, where wastewater collection began in 1866 with the construction of a stone and brick sewer in Union street.