The city government has tried to get some of the dhobis out of the Yamuna by building clusters of concrete tubs with water taps.
Trees sit in concrete tubs, bark scarred with pocket-knife carvings despite sharp-tipped circles of wrought-iron bars meant to protect each trunk.
Behind the panel, I could make out several holes in the porous, craggy rock, where water was dripping into small concrete tubs, the "catchment pools."
Others are large concrete tubs with sad flowers poking out of them.
Enormous, rough concrete tubs sat in a row at the end of a bare-bones whitewashed hallway that brought to mind a sanatorium.
Deep in this jungle are three spring-fed concrete tubs, each burbling at different temperatures.
Beyond this, there is a bank of phone booths and beyond them there is a small forest of disappointed-looking trees planted in gray concrete tubs.
Grey saw a concrete tub in a magazine and had to have one.
Monier did experiments with iron-wire reinforcement for his cement and concrete tubs and basins.
Or you can fill one of the 15 sunken concrete tubs built around 1860.