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Cloacina, Goddess of Drains

Cloacina (pronounced "Klo ah CHEE nah") is the first Roman Goddess of sewers and drains. (from the Latic cloaca, "sewer") This may at first sound rediculous, until you take into account the necessity of such a Goddess and Her powers in a large, crowded city such as Rome or Athens.

Shrine to Venus Cloacina
(Venus of the Sewer)

The main sewer was called Cloaca Maxima.

E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.

Goddess of sewers. (Latin, cloa’ca, a sewer)
“Then Cloacina, goddess of the tide,
Whose sable streams beneath the city glide
Indulged the modish flame, the town she roved,
A mortal scavenger she saw she loved.”

Oay Trivia ii.

Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American to have plumbing installed in his house, in 1840.