noun Uncommon

wastewater

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Wastewater (noun) means Water that people have already used at home or in industry, and that now contains waste.

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Water that people have already used at home or in industry, and that now contains waste.

"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." — Ronald Sullivan, PROGRAM SHAPES UP ON HARBOR SLUDGE (1976)

"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." — Frank Spellman, Revonna Bieber (2012)

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