water treatment

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noun

the act or process of making water more potable or useful, as by purifying, clarifying, softening, or deodorizing it.

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Origin of water treatment

First recorded in 1860–65

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How to use water treatment in a sentence

It is not supposed to be the case that millions of people can lose power for multiple days due to the cold, nor that those outages would topple other systems, like water treatment.
Overlapping crises expose the erosion of our national unity|Philip Bump|February 18, 2021|Washington Post
We’re talking about replacing sewage infrastructure, building new pump stations, new water treatment facilities.
Border Report: Gloria Brings in a Cross-Border Heavy-Hitter|Maya Srikrishnan|January 11, 2021|Voice of San Diego
Previous administrations in Baja touted “purple projects,” named for the purple pipe that reused water often runs through, like using water from two of the main water treatment plants in Tijuana for parks and landscaping.
Who Owns the Tijuana River – and Who Needs Its Water Most|MacKenzie Elmer and Vicente Calderón|January 11, 2021|Voice of San Diego
That’s Laborín Valdez, who is in charge of water treatment and reuse for the state government.
Who Owns the Tijuana River – and Who Needs Its Water Most|MacKenzie Elmer and Vicente Calderón|January 11, 2021|Voice of San Diego

A research report released in June concluded that logging increases sediment runoff into streams, which can lead to higher costs for water treatment plants and create cancer-causing byproducts when towns use chemicals to disinfect dirtier water.
Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price.|by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive|January 1, 2021|ProPublica