We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher
saying something like:


But they have..all you need is a nice victorian sewage pump. Generally
powered by a steam engine and covering a couple of acres.

Scale matters. The average human turd compared to the piston diameter
and valve opening of a steam powered sewage pump is miniscule.
--

Dave