open drains
Exposed water trenches
Open drains are uncovered channels that carry wastewater, sewage, or stormwater through populated areas.
Common in developing regions lacking underground sewage infrastructure, they run alongside roads or through neighborhoods, often carrying household waste and human sewage.
Open drains pose serious health hazards—breeding mosquitoes, spreading disease, and producing foul odors: Children played near the open drains despite warnings.
The phrase often signals inadequate sanitation or urban poverty.
- raw sewageUnprocessed drainage waste
- sewageLiquid refuse in drains
- gutterEdge channel for runoff
- ditchShallow excavated channel
- stagnantWithout movement or progress
mosquitoes · breeding ground · runoff · street · city streets · waste · garbage dump · flowing · trench · culvert · stench · flooding · rainwater · rainy season · channel · clogged · debris · slum
- drainagedrainpipe, sewer, sewers, storm sewer, vent stack
- sanitation historycesspools, cesspits, privies, outhouses, night soil
- sanitationsewage, sewers, cleaning, sewer, disinfecting
- slumsslum, slums, shanty, shanties, shack
- seweragesewers, sewage, sewer pipes, sewer, sewer networks