Slownsy wrote:
I take a bit of offense to the posting that is al the Europeans that has polluted your water I believe it more likely to be Americans. I was born in Europe and newer did se any body empty their suer out the windows. We actually had flushing toilets.
Frank.
In London before it was established and elsewhere, they emptied their chamber pots out of their windows, into the gutters. There are many many accounts of this and of people getting dumped on splattered etc.
Their wells were contaminated leading to many diseases and deaths. They did not know there were such things as germs. Many accounts of them only taking a bath once a year at that. When Native Americans met them they complained of their stink. The Natives bathed every day. As to modern time simply visit Ontario etc and South America. It seems hygene is a foreign thing to them and polluting of water ways is what they are for to them. The French doused themselves with so much cologne to cover their body odors from not bathing. No offense to you intended. It is common history.