How to Use wastewater in a Sentence

wastewater

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  • All this wastewater has so far been treated and stored in massive tanks.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • So Van Tyne and her team looked to a source that’s teeming with gut bacteria: wastewater.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Feb. 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
  • The city already has solar arrays at each of its wastewater treatment plants.
    — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Right now, the other half of the county’s wastewater is shot deep underground via injection wells.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The safety of Fukushima’s wastewater has been a sensitive issue for years between the U.S. allies.
    — Kim Tong-Hyung, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
  • While scientists agree on the value of wastewater monitoring, these projects face challenges in the long term.
    — Betsy Ladyzhets, Scientific American, 21 Dec. 2023
  • To apply you’ll need: Current water and/or wastewater bill.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Local wastewater treatment plants took care of the alcohol and the glass bottles were recycled.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Many of the wastewater treatment plants are also not operational.
    — Carl Churchill, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Most of the butter that left the plant traveled to a local wastewater treatment plant, which has been operating normally.
    — Rebecca Loroff, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Results from wastewater testing will be posted to the state health department's website.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 12 July 2023
  • Rodents, roaches and wastewater on the kitchen floor, as described in the Miami Herald earlier this week.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Choctaw has begun work on a wastewater treatment plant and offsite utilities required for the area, according to Carter.
    — Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Known as Pure Water, the initiative would recycle wastewater instead of sending it out into the ocean.
    — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • However, more than a quarter of wastewater testing sites reported a large increase in virus levels over the past two weeks as of Monday.
    — Minnah Arshad, The Courier-Journal, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The alleged bribes went to Mexican officials, in one case in connection with a wastewater permit.
    — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In doing so, Belvisi hopes her company will find ways to improve things on the surface too, with more efficient tools for scrubbing CO2 from the air or treating wastewater.
    — WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Most bills include wastewater and stormwater services, but some are for stormwater only.
    — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022

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