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TITLE TOKYO STORM DRAIN

Paste text about photo here This underground structure is basically the world’s biggest sewer. The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, as it is officially called, it built to drain excess water from Tokyo’s major rivers during heavy rain and typhoons. The enormous structure is more than 6 kilometers long and exists of 5 60-meter high cylinders through which water enters the network, several kilometers of tunnels, a water tank (shown in the picture) of 200 meters long and 25 meters high and 78 pumps that pump all the water into a river outside of Tokyo. Photography: Photography: Christoffer Rudquist

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