In the mid-1800s, London physician John Snow made a startling observation that would change the way that we view diseases and how they propagate. He created a map depicting where cases of cholera occurred in London’s West End and found them to be clustered around a water pump on Broad Street. This led him to believe that cholera was a waterborne disease, a conclusion that went against the Victorian “miasma theory” in which Londoners ascribed the source of cholera to bad airs or vapors entering the human body John Snow’s conviction about the source for the London outbreak and his concern for public health compelled him to oppose the popular beliefs of his time and convince the local council in London’s West End to disable the water pump on Broad Street.
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California legalized rainwater collection about a decade ago, but you have to follow water board regulations. The big issue here is similar to people in the Dakotas who found out they couldn't sell rights for shale oil, in that the homeowners often don't own the water/mineral rights to their properties.
as a GIS major who had a lot of classes that ended up being somebodies first brush with the topic – I had to hear the whole bit and the jokes 8 times for two full classes
Nevertheless John Snow is a legend
Also it's called Masque of the Red Death
It is weird to listen to this while sick with diarrea
They cover it a bit about rain water collection, where it IS restricted, it's not usually enforced at the residential level, unless people are being stupid jerks. It's a blanket code/law/regulation for MASS collection and/or retention. So if you're a member of the general public doing it on your own personal property, not in a city, you shouldn't be getting hastled, but if you're, for example, a farmer trying to retain water for your own crops, depleting the water shed for your own uses, basically obstructing other farmers "down" the watershed, you're breaking the law.
Honestly, I'm impressed by just how toxic that river became.
I remember a series made by the BBC called, seven wonders of the industrial world. One of the episodes was about the construction of the sewers of London.
Tbh. I prefer the videos where gabby isn't in it. Just stream lines the videos.
Merry Shelly wrote Frankenstein while she was quarantined with poe I believe 🤔
And yet our government has been selling our water rights in places like Arizona, drought prone places to other countries, for a ridiculously small sum. This is water from underground pockets that have been there for hundreds of years. The reason?, these countries have been forbidden to grow certain water intensive crops that would aid in increasing deserts growing. And yet we are giving them water from desert areas and limiting or restricting the citizens usage…all for a quick buck?
Love the longer videos
The plague doctors date to the 17tg century London plague outbreak which was eventually quelled by the great fire which burned out everything cleansing it and new more cleaner London was built.
In Washingtons not enforcing it much, but in the future?
Moral of the story.
Dont drink the poo juice.
California's big concern with rainwater harvesting (though it is legal within reason since 2012) is that if left standing it contributes to the spread of insect-borne disease, if harvested commercially it prevents natural flow to farmland, and it presents some danger of pollutants and disease (when collected from roof runoff, which is encouraged for use in yards and gardens).
@16:17 the laws are old, based in the doctrine that rainwater is a public good and capturing it on your property might disrupt your downstream neighbor's supply. Modern revisions of the law allow for small collections, but still ban large scale rainwater harvest as it can genuinely have adverse impacts on groundwater flow depending on the area.
The Poe story you're thinking of is probably Mask of the Red Death
It's actually very rare for rainwater collection to be illegal, but the prepper/homesteader community has turned this into a horror story about how the government is trying to keep you from being self sufficient.
In the places where it is illegal to collect rainwater it's usually because some farmer who owns thousands of acres with just the right geography built a large scale system that genuinely does deprive other people of water. Like, if you have a massive property on the side of a mountain that gets tons of rain and you build a series of swales and channels to divert the runoff into a reservoir everyone further down who used to get water doesn't anymore.
Small pox is eradicated, but the others were correct no naturally occurring case of smallpox has been recorded in 1980(1949 in the US)
The Great Stink literally sounds like some shit Papa Nurgle would cook up to reward London.
Don't shit where you eat is a phenomenal song by the band Ween
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Henry white started with the intent of proving him wrong and that it was miasma. But the evidence convinced him otherwise.
We need her to play fallout 3, a 5 seccond google search on the plot of will tell you everything you need to know
How were people back then so damn stupid?
In the 90's Bolivia privatized their water system, selling it to foreign investors and made collection of rain water illegal. (this was repealed in 2002)
Gabie mentions weird inventions in the past that didnt work. Suddenly i have flash backs of the crazy shit people buy for 5G and drinking horse dewormer.
Are you going to a Belgarth Event ?
Wait running away with the bubonic plauge aas the dark age epidimy of doubling it and giving it to the next guy
What happened to the camera?
9:41 also look up the podcast called Sawbones. It’s a podcast about weird medical history
Colorado and Utah are dry so on a micro level storing water is detrimental to farms or ranches downstream. However we're also the watershed of a great portion of the nation. So on a macro level, we are obligated to allow water to run downstream to other states. We need permission of states downstream to retain any more water than we do.
My dear … rainwater is free. Municipalities can’t charge you for it. Soooooo
You guys really need to bring on Patrick Kelly as a guest. He does fantastic medical history videos.
One must call for…… the Plague Doctor.