How to Use wastewater in a Sentence

wastewater

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Right now, the other half of the county’s wastewater is shot deep underground via injection wells.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In recent months, poliovirus has also been found in wastewater samples in London and in children in Jerusalem.
    Robert Hart, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • In Lake County, flooding from Milton caused nearly 2 million gallons of sewage water to spill from a wastewater treatment plant in Leesburg.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024

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