Thames Water operates the London water supply and sanitation, has an informative and tidy appearance network in which the history of the London sewerage system is not too short, which is traced back to the 17th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, the states were catastrophic: The metropolis had 150,000 latrines, which drains led into the River Thames, from the well, the water was removed. The cholera epidemics of 1832 and 1849 with thousands dead but were not then brought in connection with contaminated drinking water, but due to "bad vapors" in the air. In the hot summer of 1858, Parliament had to close because of Fäkalgestank from the Thames was too much to bear. This period has become known as "The Great Stink" in the annals.
What the cholera epidemics had not caused this incident now brought in transition: The funds for the project of the engineer Sir Joseph kramer Bazalgette were finally granted the build a modern sewerage system with wastewater treatment plants and wanted to provide by retaining memory for the fact that the London sewage using the tidal effect would be transported rapidly into the sea. In 1874 Bazalgettes system was fully operational and is still the backbone of the London sewers.
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