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wastewater Definition

waste·water (wāstwôt′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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