This demonstration reinforced the goals of the sanitation movement, which developed sewage drainage systems and water purification systems in cities and towns in the following decades, therewith vastly reducing the threats of cholera, typhoid and many other waterborne diseases.
Before reading this article I just assumed over time we as people figured out that to access clean and drinkable water, we have to have it purified just like anything else. I had no idea that cholera was the main threat that pushed the sanitation movement. Another thing I had never heard of was the sanitation movement. I had no clue that fighting against waterborne diseases came from a cholera root cause discovery by John Snow.