wastewater
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of wastewater
1400–50; late Middle English waste watre
Example Sentences
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Over the past two decades, Sin City has cut its water consumption by a third, by promoting wastewater recycling and restricting lawn watering and swimming pool sizes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Once the rare earth concentrate has been extracted from the wastewater, the individual elements must then be separated out and processed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Mayor Bozzo countered that Amazon has promised to build a pipeline, on its own dime, to bring wastewater to the data center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The US has 152,000 public drinking water systems and more than 16,000 wastewater treatment facilities.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Although a decontamination process could remove some of the radioactive isotopes from the water, it couldn’t clean all of it, so most of the wastewater was stored in tanks.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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