Definitions for sewage
ˈsu ɪdʒsewage

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. sewage, seweragenoun

   waste matter carried away in sewers or drains

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. sewagenoun

   A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.

2. sewagenoun

   (Obsolete usage) sewerage.

3. Etymology: From or from sew + -age.

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1. Sewage

   Sewage (or domestic sewage, domestic wastewater, municipal wastewater) is a type of wastewater that is produced by a community of people. It is typically transported through a sewer system.: 175  Sewage consists of wastewater discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional and public facilities that exist in the locality.: 10  Sub-types of sewage are greywater (from sinks, bathtubs, showers, dishwashers, and clothes washers) and blackwater (the water used to flush toilets, combined with the human waste that it flushes away). Sewage also contains soaps and detergents. Food waste may be present from dishwashing, and food quantities may be increased where garbage disposal units are used. In regions where toilet paper is used rather than bidets, that paper is also added to the sewage. Sewage contains macro-pollutants and micro-pollutants, and may also incorporate some municipal solid waste and pollutants from industrial wastewater. Sewage usually travels from a building's plumbing either into a sewer, which will carry it elsewhere, or into an onsite sewage facility. Collection of sewage of several households together usually takes places in either sanitary sewers or combined sewers. The former is designed to exclude stormwater flows whereas the latter is designed to also take stormwater. The production of sewage generally corresponds to the water consumption. A range of factors influence water consumption and hence the sewage flowrates per person. These include: Water availability (the opposite of water scarcity), water supply options, climate (warmer climates may lead to greater water consumption), community size, economic level of the community, level of industrialization, metering of household consumption, water cost and water pressure.: 20 The main parameters in sewage that are measured to assess the sewage strength or quality as well as treatment options include: solids, indicators of organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus, and indicators of fecal contamination.: 33  These can be considered to be the main macro-pollutants in sewage. Sewage contains pathogens which stem from fecal matter. The following four types of pathogens are found in sewage: pathogenic bacteria, viruses, protozoa (in the form of cysts or oocysts) and helminths (in the form of eggs). In order to quantify the organic matter, indirect methods are commonly used: mainly the Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) and the Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD).: 36 Management of sewage includes collection and transport for release into the environment, after a treatment level that is compatible with the local requirements for discharge into water bodies, onto soil or for reuse applications.: 156  Disposal options include dilution (self-purification of water bodies, making use of their assimilative capacity if possible), marine outfalls, land disposal and sewage farms. All disposal options may run risks of causing water pollution.

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1. sewage

   Sewage is waste material, primarily liquid, generated by residential, industrial, or commercial activities that is carried away through sewers or drains. It often consists of human waste, water, and other organic materials, and can also include chemicals or other hazardous substances. In most cases, sewage is treated in a wastewater treatment facility before being discharged back into the environment.

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1. Sewagenoun

   the contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

2. Sewagenoun

   sewerage, 2

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1. Sewage

   Sewage is a water-carried waste, in solution or suspension, that is intended to be removed from a community. Also known as wastewater, it is more than 99% water and is characterized by volume or rate of flow, physical condition, chemical constituents and the bacteriological organisms that it contains. In loose American English usage, the terms 'sewage' and 'sewerage' are sometimes interchanged. Both words are descended from Old French assewer, derived from the Latin exaquare, "to drain out"

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1. Sewage

   Refuse liquid or waste matter carried off by sewers. (Webster, 3d ed)

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How to pronounce sewage?

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How to say sewage in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sewage in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sewage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of sewage in a Sentence

1. Bill Gates:

   Today, rich countries have a sewage system where you bring water in, put the human waste in it and it goes out to all the way to a treatment processing plant, that requires the installation of a lot of pipes. It's very expensive and it's not gon na happen in these newer, poorer cities.

2. Paulo Santos:

   This government helped many people buy homes, cars and electronics, but we still don't have health, education and basic sewage.

3. Oliver Stuenkel:

   Half of Brazilians don't have a functioning sewage system; they don't have proper running water. You can't really say that the state should provide that to refugees without any money because then it would be providing better services to refugees than to its own population.

4. Michelle Bachelet:

   We don't have any problems with supplies, water or sewage up to now, our problem is a respiratory one, from inhaling all of this ash, and the fact that this ash could generate some sort of environmental contamination.

5. Abdul Ghafoor:

   The centre of the city is normal, the city smells so bad with dead bodies still on the pavements and in the sewage. The local government must do something.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=sewage
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sewage
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sewage
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sewage
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sewage