Cotton industry: The Indus cotton industry was well-developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the industrialization of India.Distillation: A terracota distillation apparatus in the Indus Valley in West Pakistan dates from around 3000 BCE.Waste water was directed to covered gravity sewers, which lined the major streets. All houses in the major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro had access to water and drainage facilities. Drainage System: The Indus Valley Civilisation had advanced sewerage and drainage systems.
These toilets were Western-style, albeit a primitive form, with vertical chutes, via which waste was disposed of into cesspits or street drains.
Flush Toilet: Mohenjo-Daro circa 2800 BC is cited as having some of the most advanced, with toilets built into outer walls of homes. Each block was subdivided by small lanes. By 2600 BC, Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, and other major cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation, were built with blocks divided by a grid of straight streets, running north–south and east–west. Grid Plan: Rehman Dheri contains the earliest evidence of a grid-planned city in south Asia dated c. According to John Keay, the " Great Bath" of Mohenjo Daro in present-day Pakistan was the size of 'a modest municipal swimming pool', complete with stairs leading down to the water at each one of its ends. Public Baths: The earliest public baths are found in the ruins in of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Similar drills were found in other parts of the Indus Valley Civilisation and Iran one millennium later. This bow drill-used to drill holes into lapis lazuli and carnelian-was made of green jasper. Bow Drill: Bow drills were used in Mehrgarh between the 4th and 5th millennium BC. Subsequently, the wells at Dhank (550-625 CE) and stepped ponds at Bhinmal (850-950 CE) were constructed. Rock-cut step wells in the subcontinent date from 200-400 CE. Both the wells and the form of ritual bathing reached other parts of the world with Buddhism. The early centuries immediately before the common era saw the Buddhists and the Jains of India adapt the stepwells into their architecture. The three features of stepwells in the subcontinent are evident from one particular site, abandoned by 2500 BCE, which combines a bathing pool, steps leading down to water, and figures of some religious importance into one structure. Stepwell: Earliest clear evidence of the origins of the stepwell is found in the Indus Valley Civilisation's archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro in Pakistan and Dholavira, India. For a long time the Romans affected to despise this "Greek diversion," but they ended up adopting it so enthusiastically that the agricultural writer Columella (1st century CE) complained that its devotees often spent their whole patrimony in betting at the side of the pit." The sport spread throughout Asia Minor and Sicily. The Encyclopædia Britannica (2008)-on the origins of cockfighting-holds: "The game fowl is probably the nearest to the Indian red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), from which all domestic chickens are believed to be descended.The sport was popular in ancient times in the Indian subcontinent, China, the Persian Empire, and other Eastern countries and was introduced into Greece in the time of Themistocles (c. Cockfighting: Cockfighting was a pastime in the Indus Valley Civilisation in what today is Pakistan by 2000 BCE and one of the uses of the fighting cock. It is situated 80 km south of Ahmedabad in Gujarat. Shipyard: The world's oldest shipyard has been found in Lothal. It is made of a curved shell and about 5000 years old." Ian McNeil (1990) holds that: "The button, in fact, was originally used more as an ornament than as a fastening, the earliest known being found at Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley. 
Some buttons were carved into geometric shapes and had holes pierced into them so that they could be attached to clothing by using a thread. Button, ornamental: Buttons-made from seashell-were used in the Indus Valley Civilisation for ornamental purposes by 2000 BCE.An ancient well, and the city drainage canals, in Lothal, Gujarat, India
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