wastewater

Word origin

From waste + water.

Used in a sentence

• “Near-synonyms: sewage, sullage, graywater, blackwater, washwater, poop water (informal)”

• “The commission's recommendations would require the removal of toxins and heavy metals from wastewaters that now run into regional rivers and New York Harbor untreated, and collect at their bottom.”

• “As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.”

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