#GotCleanWater?
WRVM Collection, 1992.0004.037, Gift of the City of Auburn
Wooden water pipe, Auburn, c. 1920
The Sanitation Movement fought for safe drinking water and sewer systems to be installed by municipalities in order to reduce deaths from water-borne diseases like cholera. Since infants and children were the primary victims of these diseases, civic sanitation was often framed as a woman’s issue.