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Salvador Drainado is the most famous plumber on Earth and the founder of the Brooklyn Plumbers Academy.

“The plumber is mightier than the sword.”
—Old Mushroom Kingdom saying, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Nintendo Player's Guide

A Plumber is an occupation that exists in both the Earth and the Mushroom World. On Earth, their job is mainly to unclog toilets, however they do fix pipes occasionally. However, on Mushroom World, a plumber's job seems to be more to clean and maintain various sewers and fix Warp Pipes than toilets. The most notable plumbers in the Mario series are Mario and Luigi.

Marco Polo's Plumbers introduced plumbing to Venice.

When the explorer Marco Polo, went to China, he and his crew brought back many discoveries to Europe. One of these was the art of plumbing. Marco Polo's Plumbers learned plumbing in China and later introduced it to the city of Venice. Plumbing later spread through Europe and sewer systems became essential for modern towns throughout the world.

Hundreds of years later, the famous plumber Salvador Drainado founded the Brooklyn Plumbers Academy to spread plumbing to a younger generation. Many plumbers, including Mario and Luigi became plumbers here under the strict teachings of Sergeant Kooperman. Mario and Luigi became renowned for their abilities when they saved the president of the United States of America from a sewer flood. The president gave Mario the Golden Plumber's Helper and Luigi the Golden Wrench as thanks. The brothers later founded the Mario Brothers Plumbing business, where they continued their jobs, and received the Plumbers of the Year award by the Imperial Poobah of the Grand Order of Plumbers.

In the Mushroom World, there seems to be very few plumbers, which is odd since they have many sewers and Warp Pipes. Instead, the few plumbers are often seen as celebrities, with Mario being world-famous, Mighty Plumber having his own successful television show, and there even being a plumber who is a comic book hero, Dirk Drain-Head. One of the few times a plumber is requested is in Super Mario Adventures, where Mario and Luigi are called to Princess Peach's Castle in order to fix a sewage problem.

Plumbing isn't often a heavy focus of the Mario games and the Mario Bros. have only fixed sewers directly in two of them. In the game Mario Bros., Mario and Luigi cleaned the sewers of the foul monsters that infested them, and the two fixed the leaks in the Beanbean Castle Piping System in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Plumbing got a passing mention in Paper Mario, when Goombario said in Toad Town Tunnels, "Uh... I think this is a sewer. You know... the Toad Town sewer. Under Toad Town. What am I saying? You know! You're a plumber, after all!" The biggest role plumbing plays in the games is usually mentioning that Mario is a plumber and Mario using Warp Pipes to his advantage. However, in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Mario gives his profession as "adventurer."