A map shows the route of London’s new super sewer, with just months to go until effluent will float through the mega structure for the first time. Known as Thames Tideway Tunnel, the new sewer ...

The book comprises rare archival plans, blueprints, maps and photographs relating to the systems ... Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Main sewer at Nunhead, London, 1889. Image courtesy ...

Ever wondered about the gory and grimy details of history? 3 words: London’s sewers system; the exact system that is used by 9 million people quotidianly and in no understatement, is the ...

A stretch of London's new "Super Sewer" has been transformed into a multi-coloured underground garden. The 'Loo Garden' has been set up 50m below the streets of the capital. Darkness and the ...

Thames Water is unclogging five blockages an hour from London's sewers - at a cost of £1m a month. The company, which is also monitoring five fatbergs lurking in the capital's sewers, said some ...

This gigantic fatberg, made up of oil, grease, wet wipes, and nappies, was found blocking London's sewer systems. The huge blob weighed 130 tonnes - roughly the same weight as 11 double decker buses.

The super sewer is here! But it’s not a silver bullet to cleaning up the River Thames, writes the Port of London Authority’s Robin Mortimer The tidal Thames doesn’t stand still. And to ...

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