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  2. Sewage - Wikipedia

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    Sewage (or domestic wastewater) consists of wastewater discharged from residences and from commercial, institutional and public facilities that exist in the locality. [2]: 10 Sewage is a mixture of water (from the community's water supply), human excreta (feces and urine), used water from bathrooms, food preparation wastes, laundry wastewater, and other waste products of normal living.

  3. Wastewater - Wikipedia

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    Wastewater (or waste water) is water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications or processes. [1]: 1 Another definition of wastewater is "Used water from any combination of domestic, industrial, commercial or agricultural activities, surface runoff / storm water, and any sewer inflow or sewer infiltration".

  4. Sewerage - Wikipedia

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    Sewerage (or sewage system) is the infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff (stormwater, meltwater, rainwater) using sewers. It encompasses components such as receiving drains , manholes , pumping stations , storm overflows, and screening chambers of the combined sewer or sanitary sewer .

  5. Wastewater treatment - Wikipedia

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    Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges. [5]

  6. Sewage treatment - Wikipedia

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    The term sewage treatment plant (STP) (or sewage treatment works) is nowadays often replaced with the term wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). [7] [8] Strictly speaking, the latter is a broader term that can also refer to industrial wastewater treatment. The terms water recycling center or water reclamation plants are also in use as synonyms.

  7. Category:Sewerage - Wikipedia

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    S. Sanitary sewer overflow; Sanitation; Secondary treatment; Sedimentation (water treatment) Select Society of Sanitary Sludge Shovelers; Septage; Septic drain field

  8. As sewage overflows become more frequent, advocates and ... - AOL

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    In other words, “for all our regular everyday rains, CSOs shouldn’t be happening,” according to Lange. Combined sewer overflows and climate change. ... “These (sewage systems) were built a ...

  9. Sewer - Wikipedia

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    Sewer commonly refers to a part of sewerage, the infrastructure that conveys sewage. Types of sewers include: Combined sewer; Effluent sewer; Gravity sewer; Sanitary sewer; Storm sewer; Vacuum sewer; Other uses: Sewer, one who does sewing