DRAINAGE SYSTEM

🏮 DRAINAGE SYSTEM

#Harappancivilization

📍 Well laid-out streets and side lanes associated with an efficient and well-planned drainage system are other notable features of Harappan settlements. 

📍 The sewage chutes and pipes were separate from drains for collecting rain water. 

📍 Drains and water chutes from the second storey were often built inside the wall, with an exit opening just above the street drain. 

📍 At Harappa and Mohenjodaro, terracotta drain pipes directed waste water into open street drains made of baked bricks. These connected into large drains along the main streets, which emptied their contents into the fields outside the city wall. 

📍 The main drains were covered by corbelled arches made of brick or stone slabs. 

📍 There were rectangular soakpits for collecting solid waste at regular intervals.

▪︎SOURCE - Upinder singh.

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