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Sanitation as a practice has no single point of origin. The Wikipedia article attests independent ancient sanitation systems, including the Indus Valley Civilization's Bronze Age water supply and sanitation (3300 to 1300 BCE) and ancient Rome's Cloaca Maxima sewer, built between 800 and 735 BCE, with no founding year this atlas can honestly attest as the practice's single origin.
What would resolve this A source specifically dating the origin of organized public sanitation as a practice (rather than any one ancient water or sewer system) would resolve this, or a scholarly consensus that no single origin year can be given.
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Sanitation refers to public health conditions related to clean drinking water and treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage.
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