Now the Gowanus is particularly smelly I will admit it.

All of a sudden, the river rose and broke its banks.

Big structures often had drainage tunnels into the sewers in case of flooding down in the subbasements.

The typhoon caused the river to flood.

The river flooded a large area.

This river is going to overflow.

Porn in times square,pickpockets.

The rivers were flooded by the heavy rain.

In the city, the information is flooding.

So, things happen to an ant colony.

The town was flooded with strange foreign words.

This river sometimes overflows after the thaw.

How does a river operate above the level of the flood plain?

And then you had networks that developed.

Sewers.

The sewers?

These are my mother's, at the top although that's not her car, it was carried there by floodwaters up to the roof and that's my sister's, below.

January and February are the dry months in Haiti, yet many of the camps had developed standing water.

This is the old sewer.

It makes you want to stop working and discuss my case?

Vampires really jam on sewer systems.

This is a plumbing part. It's called a ptrap.

Tunnels leads to the sewers, sewers lead to the storm drains... Storm drains leads to sea.

Where in the sewers?

It's one of our sergeants, sir.

They'll check the river, they'll check the sewer.

You're in the sewer, Walter.

Irrigation starts to make you be allowed to plant stuff where you want it, as opposed to where the rivers flood.

Yes, I promise to astonish you with news of how a river can operate above the level of the flood plain, OK?

You know, hunting this thing in the sewers...

But by 1929, cities around the country had put in underground water pipes.

The house has pipes under the ground to carry dirty water away.

In which our daily lives are more subjected to what de Tocqueville called a network of small complicated rules that cover the surface of life and strangle freedom .

We're only 500 feet from the main sewer line.

That's, uh... it's trouble with the pipes.

Here's a map of my city, New York City, showing inundation in red.

Clearly of the type used in sewer lamps.

Now these sewers are all that's left.

You should get a better frame, man... like something in a rustic with a linen liner...

Even more critical are the water treatment and distribution systems.

Back to where he belongs The sewer!

Wherever he's going, he's following this sewer line.

I have a deadline.

Next thing I knew, I spent the next two days kneecap deep in human feces.

The water of the water supply is dangerous.