Architecture & Engineering
Covered urban drainage and sanitation
c. 2600-1900 BCEIndus Valley CivilisationMohenjo-daro, LothalGujarat
2,600 BCE
Household drains connected to covered street sewers — among the earliest municipal sanitation.
- Dated
- 2,600–1,900 BCE
- As scholars put it
- c. 2600-1900 BCE
- Originator
- Indus Valley Civilisation
- Source text
- Mohenjo-daro, Lothal
- Region
- Gujarat
- Discipline
- Architecture & Engineering
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Comprehensive urban sewerage re-emerged in the West in the 19th c.
Fair to say
Scale and function are inferred from archaeology.
Path to modern innovation
Public sanitation is central to modern public health.
Transmission
An early, independent sanitation system.
References
- 1Kenoyer
- 2Indus archaeology
Further reading
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