How to Use wastewater in a Sentence

wastewater

noun

• The Yale lab has been tracking wastewater since March 2020.
  — Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2022
• Surveys of wastewater in the Bay Area suggest this surge could be the biggest yet.
  — New York Times, 18 July 2022
• Zoom in: Half of the 10 new odor monitors will be near the city's wastewater treatment plant.
  — Jason Clayworth, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
• Brooks has to retrieve cows that slip through the barbed wire fence around the site and chew the wells’ rusting metal and drink wastewater.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 6 May 2024
• All this wastewater has so far been treated and stored in massive tanks.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• Water is plumbed to a water heater and all wastewater runs to a sewer joint.
  — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2024
• The company has promised to re-treat the wastewater before it is released.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
• Sponges and brushes made from plastic can shed microfibers into the wastewater stream (and end up in the ocean)—and the rest ends up in the landfill.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 29 Aug. 2023
• The state has strict rules on the amount of phosphorus that can be discharged from wastewater treatment plants.
  — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
• This is on top of a surge in polio found in wastewater samples across London.
  — Ashwin Vasan, STAT, 10 Nov. 2022
• So Van Tyne and her team looked to a source that’s teeming with gut bacteria: wastewater.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2024
• One tool that can be used to assess how much the virus is spreading in a community is to test the wastewater.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2024
• The scope of the state’s review also includes wastewater treatment plants and landfills.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• Health officials around the world have used wastewater to track covid-19 outbreaks.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2022
• Some years ago, he was asked to check out a wastewater treatment plant in New York that had become home to a breeding colony of pigeons.
  — New York Times, 23 June 2022
• Over the past three decades, the sewerage district has been able to capture and clean an average of 98.6% of wastewater.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024
• The city already has solar arrays at each of its wastewater treatment plants.
  — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2023
• Not long ago, tracking the spread of a virus by sampling wastewater counted as a novelty in the United States.
  — Helen Ouyang, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
• All five wastewater plants in Gaza are shut down due to lack of power, resulting in large amounts of raw sewage being dumped into the sea.
  — Carl Churchill, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• Nassau County was the latest to find polio in its wastewater.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022
• And that leather, which Bentley calls Olive Tan, is made with a new process that employs wastewater from olive pressing to create the tanning agent.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2023
• The wastewater also adds to dangerous algal blooms on the edges of Lake Erie, court documents claim.
  — Elias Lopez, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2024
• The San Francisco Bay has 37 wastewater treatment plants that serve millions of people in the region.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• All five wastewater treatment plants and two of the three desalination plants have stopped working.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 24 Oct. 2023
• The AquaCon facility is designed to release its wastewater on the other side of the bridge.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• For now, that rejoins the standard treated wastewater for release to the Pacific.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 14 Dec. 2022
• The discharge of wastewater began on Aug. 24 and is expected to continue for decades.
  — Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2023
• When a truck fatally crushed a man who was helping build a wastewater basin to allow swimming events to be held in the Seine, his death was omitted from the Olympic count.
  — Sarah Hurtes, New York Times, 8 May 2024
• Likewise, customers on the same size of meter will be assessed a new monthly $20 wastewater availability charge that will take effect on the same date.
  — Joseph Flaherty, arkansasonline.com, 15 Oct. 2024
• That includes at least five Florida wastewater treatment plants that were damaged in Milton's and Helene's paths.
  — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024