The sewers of Paris are also known as the Egouts of Paris, which have a very interesting story that describes why they exist at the present time and where they are.
Everything had its origin due to a problem presented in the form of water distribution, since it is in the Middle Ages that in order to have drinking water for the population, it had to be provided obligatorily from the natural source offered by the Seine River. This did not represent any problem until a short time later, since the adopted system was based on the re-circulation of water, that is, this drinking water, after being used, had to return to its natural source, which was the River. Sign.
Due to the fact that the streets of the region were not paved, the water that returned to the Seine River made it very dirty, which meant that it could not be used again in recycling, more due to the lack of means and technology.
From this season on, we began to make some adjustments, the first of which was carried out by Felipe Augusto, who in the XNUMXth century ordered the streets to be paved and to carry out an alternate water drainage.
Going through Louis XIV, who improved the type of drainage implemented by his predecessor, to the engineer Eugéne Belgrand, who developed and implemented this entire drainage system in a better way, is that the city of Paris currently has more than 2.000 kilometers of extension Underground drainage, an engineering work that shows underground streets of the same dimension as the upper ones.