From time to time you read about industry lobbyists who pressure our government into easing some of the regulations on factories to reduce smog-causing chemicals. These regulations were put in place for very good reasons, and the idea that the… Read More
In 19th-century London, water companies made no effort to filter the drinking water pumped in from the Thames. On several occasions, live eels came wriggling out of people's faucets.
source: Liza Picard, Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840 - 1870