In praise of...the drain

[Heidi]

Ya gotta love drains. Without 'em, we'd probably have drowned in our bathrooms and/or kitchens long, long ago. :thumbsup:



The History of Plumbing - Babylonia
To the ancient traveler on foot or camel back, the massive walled city of Babylon and its network of canals and verdant crop lands must have loomed like a mirage in the simmering heat of the Near East sun. Adding to a disbelieving eye was a 300-ft. high ziggurat or temple tower in the city's center, surrounded on all sides by lush gardens and date palm trees that swayed upon the terraced city.

Located some 50 miles south of Baghdad in what is now Iraq, the flat land today is broken only by a series of desolate mounds and occasional patches of green cultivation and small villages. But beneath these mounds or "tells" are shattered remnants of past civilizations, crumbled foundations of clay cities literally layered one on top of the other.

What developed in this area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers from about 6000-3000 B.C. were the beginnings of western civilization. Here the warrior peoples of Assyria reigned with a fearsome hand over Sumerian and Babylonian culture. In their wake were produced systems of writing and communication, literature, a codified set of laws, a calendar and system for ascertaining time. Wheeled vehicles became common - and water management evolved into irrigation dams, drains and basins, and personal bathrooms of their era's rich and famous.

http://www.theplumber.com/history.html

[billyskank]

1. Are you copycatting me, Heidi dear?

:loveya:

[Heidi]

2. Are you insinuating

that drains are not praise-worthy? :rofl:

[billyskank]

3. On reflection

I think they are certainly praiseworthy, when I consider how much trouble I have had with them being blocked up and non-functional. :)

[In_The_Wind]

4. I was praising my drain a few years ago! Big Time!

Both bathrooms were being re-tiled. Something must have fallen into the open hole while the toilet was out of the bathroom as the floor was being replaced. :scared: I thought the entire house was going to be lost for lack of a drain. x(