Funds for one of these systems were allocated following London's Great Stink.  
Colonel Julius Adams published a widely read textbook on how to design these things "for the Populous Districts".  Edwin Chadwick oversaw one of these things as chairman of the MCS and advocated for the use of glazed earthenware in them.  Sir Joseph William (*) Bazalgette was put in charge of building one of these things after an event in 1858 caused the Houses of Parliament to close.  Victor Berger was a leader of a group pejoratively named for boasting about how great these systems were in early-20th century Milwaukee.  Funds for one of these systems were allocated following London's Great Stink.  An early one of these systems was first constructed under Tarquinius Priscus, was known as the Cloaca Maxima, and had an outflow to the Tiber.  For 10 points, name these systems for disposing of waste from a city
Colonel Julius Adams published a widely read textbook on how to design these things "for the Populous Districts".  
sewers [or sewage systems or drainage systems or waste treatment systems]