wastewater
wastewater
Definition
waste·water (wāst′wôt′ər, -wät′-)
noun
water used by a factory, household, etc. and discharged as sewage
wastewater
Usage Examples
Preposition: from
- population: Wastewater from a population of 550 goes through several cleaning processes before being released into a tributary of the Royal Military Canal.
Converse of object
- recycle: Recycling wastewater in the environment: About Southern Water's wastewater treatment services.
- treat: Anglian Water treats the wastewater from over 5 million customers a day from the River Humber to the River Thames.
- clean: The cleaned wastewater is then released nearly three miles out to sea through a long sea outfall.
- generate: It must find a new way to deal with the wastewater generated by the 250,000 people in the area.
- transfer: We are proposing to construct an 11km long sewer to transfer wastewater from Black Rock in Brighton to our planned new site at Peacehaven.
- release: The works has played a major part in improving the quality of the treated wastewater released into the Medway Estuary.
Adjective modifier
- domestic: Household Water: A useful additional source of supply is domestic wastewater.
- urban: Sources: urban wastewater, urban runoff, agriculture, industry.
- municipal: Phosphorus removal from industrial and municipal wastewater was started in the middle of the 1970s.
- present: At present, wastewater from Bangor, Donaghadee and Millisle is pumped, largely untreated, out to sea.
- same: With Mazatlan Jungle Tour stops in at night waves been profound the same wastewater.
Modifies a noun
- treatment: A concrete effluent channel borders the site, bringing water from a nearby wastewater treatment plant to the Salt River.
- discharge: The project has virtually eliminated the company's wastewater discharges.
- disposal: In addition a QI control system will be installed for a new wastewater disposal station just opened at the city.
- plant: A concrete effluent channel borders the site, bringing water from a nearby wastewater treatment plant to the Salt River.
- utility: New Richmond Utilities - Locally owned and operated electric, water and wastewater utility, New Richmond, Wisconsin, USA.
- recycling: Any wastewater from the exhaust cleaning and dross washing processes are first filtered of solids before being passed onto the wastewater recycling plant.
Preposition: into
- tributary: The works treats and recycles wastewater into a tributary of the River Ouse.
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