Water Technology Lecture 13: Historical Development of Sewage and Water Treatment

Abstract

This is the a supplementary lecture in the course Water Technology dealing with the historical development of wastewater treatment in the UK and Ireland. This is a PowerPoint lecture which is free to use and modify. It was designed to be used in conjunction with the course text Gray, N.F. (2017) Water Science and Technology: An Introduction, published by CRC Press, Oxford. In the lecture the following are explored: Development of household sewage disposal, River Fleet, London, Garderobe, close stool, chamber pot, Sir John Harrington, Sir Joseph Bazalgette, cholera, the great stink, John Snow, Chadwick Report, London sewer, TCD, History of wastewater treatment, wastewater treatment, history.