Despite how some leading mega cities had excel by building hauge sewer tunnels and futuristic network during the early 1900th; yet, it turned to be the worst nightmare for the urban managers by the formation of fatbergs. At the developing countries, sewerage blockage results from inadequate sizes of the networks; which is easier to resolve. The events is match related to the common behavior to dispose many unsolvable items into the sewer; while the chemical degradation create grace that bind the masses..
Fatberg, what an odd word.
Do you know what it means?
In use since 2013, the term 'fatberg' has become an increasingly heard term that describes a large solid mass found in a sewer which is made up of non-biodegradable solid matter and grease or cooking fat. The main culprit usually blamed is the flushing away of wet wipes. When these get caught up on something in the pipes, other substances begin to cling to them and, over time, can grow into huge, drain clogging beasts.
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Nobody remembers exactly who coined the word, but it started off as a bit of slang used by the Thames Water “flushers” who work to keep the sewers flowing freely beneath London. Their word first surfaced from those Victorian tunnels and into the newspapers in August 2013, when a bus-sized “fatberg” – a solid mass of oil and grease and undisposable disposables – was removed from a sewer in Kingston upon Thames. After that the name caught on in the way that its rival “johnnyberg” (used by the flushers of Anglian Water, who had been struck by the preponderance of condoms in the ossified deposits) did not. “Fatberg” reached the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015 – at the same moment as “manspreading” and “Brexit” and “bantz” – and in the same year in which a record-breaking 10-tonne example broke a sewer in Chelsea costing Thames Water £400,000 to fix. But it wasn’t really until last year that “fatberg” went viral.
A fatberg is a rock-like mass of waste matter in a sewer system formed by the combination of flushed non-biodegradable solids, such as wet wipes, and fat, oil and grease (FOG) deposits.
The handling of FOG waste and the buildup of its deposits are a long-standing problem in waste management, with "fatberg" a more recent neologism. Fatbergs have formed in sewers worldwide, with the rise in usage of disposable (so-called "flushable") cloths.
Several prominent examples were discovered in the 2010s in Great Britain, their formation accelerated by aging Victorian sewers.
Fatbergs are costly to remove, and have given rise to public awareness campaigns about flushable waste.
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