EditorialMystery artist Impro strikes again with a urinal placed on Sonning Bridge, locals say in disgust at recent sewage levels in The River Thames, Sonning on Thames, Berkshire, UK - 18 Jul 2023
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialMusicians set up for a sunset performance in Queens at a cove where a combined sewer outfall meets the East River, June 9, 2023. (Natalie Keyssar/The New York Times)
EditorialA San Francisco resident helps clear debris from a blocked sewer drain that was causing flooding, Dec. 31, 2022. (Mike Kai Chen/The New York Times)
EditorialFlowers at a gathering in memory of the hundreds of babies buried at the the site of a former Mother and Baby Home Tuam, Ireland, Oct. 2, 2022. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times)
EditorialFlowers at a gathering in memory of the hundreds of babies buried at the the site of a former Mother and Baby Home Tuam, Ireland, Oct. 2, 2022. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times)
EditorialA worker lowers a sampling container into an open pipe of sewer wastewater at the Newton Creek Wastewater Plant in Brooklyn on 2020 Oct. 6, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialSewer reservoir, Illustration of the drainage system in Rome from the 18th century, signed: Piranesi F, Tab. III, after S. CCXII, Piranesi, Giambattista, 1761, Piranesi, Giovanni Battista: [...] De Romanorum magnificentia et architectura =: Della magni...
EditorialDrawn plan of Stratford Place, showing the houses &c. and the alteration of the sewer, 1772. . 1772. [ca. 1800]. Pen and ink with wash on tracing paper with additions in pencil. Copied from a plan of 1772; leaseholders' names and dimension of indivi...