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Myth: "Household drains deplete finances, health, aspirations, travel, clog sinuses, wreak havoc in general."
The Egyptians had copper plumbing around 3000 BCE; many homes had indoor plumbing without the expense of copper. Flushing toilets were available at Knossos Palace on Crete around 1500 BCE. The Indus Valley civilization (2600-1900 BCE), ancient Greece and Rome also had indoor plumbing. Even the Bible makes mention of indoor plumbing at the palace of King Eglon of Moab, in what is now west-central Jordan.
Technical knowledge about indoor plumbing faded in Europe with the fall of the Roman Empire.
If drains were capable of the deleterious effects that people claim, then indoor plumbing would have been abandoned several thousand years ago.
Because archaeologists have also found Chinese toilets dated to the Han dynasty, it seems quite unlikely that the alleged problems with drains are anything more than a favorite superstition of McFengshui sales people.
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